Italy's Best-kept Coffee Secret Is This Stunning Port City and Its Timeless Cafes

"To learn more, I arranged a chat with Cristina Favento, a travel and food journalist who has researched the history of Trieste’s cafes. We met on the terrace of Caffè degli Specchi, in the Piazza della Unità, a vast seafront square lined with stately 19th-century palazzos. “A hundred years ago, there were four cafes here, and their tables and chairs would have filled up almost the whole piazza,” Favento said. “Everybody wanted a different coffee, so the waiters came up with short names for them, like goccia or capo in b.”" - Taras Grescoe