MONNO is a small bar on Piazza San Domenico, a couple of streets from the Palazzo Ducale in the old town of Modena. It opened in 2025 and calls itself the baretto in piazzetta, the little bar on the small square. Breakfast, light lunches and aperitivo all happen at the same counter, and there are tables outside on the square. Dogs are welcome.
The bar is queer-owned, and it is where Cosmo Night lands: an LGBTQ+ aperitivo with a resident cast of drag queens that moved around the city for years before settling here. Those evenings bring music, a buffet and a mixed queer crowd into a room that is otherwise a neighbourhood cafe.
It is one of only two places in Modena that the city's LGBTQIA+ association files as queer rather than friendly, which in a city this size makes it the obvious first stop.
The people in this picture are AI-generated.
