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This isn’t your typical wine bar. It’s a sharp break from the glossy world of food and wine.
At Appio Latino, Via Apulia 11, we’ve created a space that speaks the language of materials: concrete, wood, steel. Textural, direct, unfiltered.
WHO
Ruvido nasce nel Luglio 2023 da:
ALESSANDRO BERNABEI l’ospitalità di Acquasanta e Terramadre.
DANIELE YARI STATI The Bro Food, voce schietta della scena romana.
LUCA LAURENTI art director, visione e forma del “ruvido”.
Abbiamo trovato un ex bar e l’abbiamo spogliato di tutto.
Niente fronzoli, niente finzioni. Solo struttura e verità.
THE WINE
We specialize in natural wines, macerated wines, and orange wines: lively and polarizing wines. We also carry wines from France, Slovenia, Spain, and Germany. Glasses range from €8 to €12.
Our selection changes every week: small-batch wines, no compromises, no mass-produced wines.
We don’t aim for the longest wine list, but for the most cohesive one.
THE SPACE
Berlin meets Tokyo.
Raw concrete, hollow bricks like a wine cellar, bottles as architecture.
A large communal wooden table, Corten steel stools, electronic music, new wave, alternative.
Amid the bottles, punk books, street art, vinyl figurines.
A distinct aesthetic: wine as a physical experience.
OUR CUISINE
No stoves. A necessity that became a style.
A kitchen without fire: raw ingredients take center stage, with chef RUDY RUGGERI (Bottega Pasolini) at the helm.
We collaborate with various local and non-local producers, and our dishes are constantly evolving and designed to pair with wine.
And then there are the pop-ups, where over time we’ve hosted: