Every order leaves one behind

In Naples there is an old habit: you pay for two coffees and drink one. The second stays at the counter, paid for, for whoever comes in and cannot pay. It is called caffè sospeso — a suspended coffee.

It is not charity. Nobody is thanked, and nobody knows who left it. That is the point of it.

Every order placed here leaves one suspended coffee in Naples. We publish the count and we name the bars. If we ever stop publishing it, stop believing us.