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Pasticceria Barini, 8 corso Porta Nuova, T 045 8030449, http://www.pasticceriabarini.it Mon-Sat 0630-2030. An unusually good selection of cakes and pastries makes Barini, just south of piazza Bra, an especially good place for a morning coffee. It’s also a good place to buy sweet delicacies to be boxed up and taken home. Bar Gheo, via D Alighieri 22. Lots of Italians sit outside at this café bar, especially at aperitivo time when it’s a good spot for people-watching, and when the snacks are also good. The small barrel-vaulted bar is hidden away under external stairs. Hippopotamus Wine Bar, piazza Cavour, T 045 6570069. This fashionable bijou wine bar has two or three tables outside, and a sunken interior with a small bar and walls lined with bottles. Wind’s Bar, via Matteotti 72, T 0464 505232. Daily 0700-0200, Sep-Mar closed Tue. With tables and seats made from snowboards and bike wheels, and with just about everything else shiny chrome, Wind’s is a hip young bar going for the windsurfing market; which doesn’t stop distinctly square, elderly Germans stopping by for pots of tea. Sandwiches, salads and snacks are also on offer. La Fiaba, via M Buonarroti 38, Borghetto, T 045 7950055. Tue 2100-0200, Wed-Sun 1800-0200.This laid-back café has copious quantities of candles, a verdant garden and 72 types of tea and 20 more infusions. At E4.20 though, they are overpriced. Cocktail and other drinks are better value. The atmosphere swings slowly between quiet and soporific. Caffè Natura, via Cesare Battista 17, T 0444 235372. All white marble and white-painted wood, this café has a great selection of freshly squeezed juices, milkshakes and yoghurt drinks as well as coffee and sandwiches.
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