The owners of iconic Melbourne café, Brunetti, Fabio and Yuri Angelé,
have opened their new premises at 380 Lygon Street Carlton.

In a twist of fate, Brunetti is moving back to the exact location where it originally opened in 1974, before making way for the construction of Lygon Court in the mid 80s and relocating around the corner in Faraday Street.

With a distinctly Roman ambience and aesthetic, the new Brunetti is a sophisticated and traditional Italian café that combines a large architect-designed interior with professional and authentic service, and one of the city’s most extensive arrays of mouth-watering cakes, biscuits, pastries and chocolates, pizzas, panini, breads and gelati.

Designed by Fabio and Yuri’s architect brother, Joe Angelé, the café’s circular design and high ceilings add a sense of theatre and grandeur found in many of Rome’s most prominent cafés. Stunning terrazzo and marble mosaics feature throughout the interior, which is complemented by Italian-designed display cases, contemporary pendant lighting and soft furnishings, murals of black and white images taken in Rome in the 1940s and Brunetti’s signature bisazza tiling.

Moving through the café is a seamless journey past the display cabinets of Brunetti’s signature celebration cakes and the Pasticceria, with its impressive selection of small cakes, pastries and biscuits.

At the heart of the new space is Brunetti’s 20-metre central coffee bar. A hive of activity, there is a team of baristas making thousands of coffees a day. Like in Italy, customers can stand at the bar and enjoy their coffee or sit down and enjoy it in one of the many intimate dining spaces that fill the café.

Another major feature of the new café is the Pizzeria, which features a specially designed wood fired oven from Italy that cooks traditional pizzas to perfection using state of the art technology and a rotating interior. On the menu are 30 types of different pizzas; from the traditional Margarita and Prosciutto pizzas to the more gourmet style
‘Gucci’, ‘Sophia Loren’ and ‘le pizza fritte’ (fried pizza).

There is also a dedicated Panetteria serving freshly baked breads and Danishes; a Deli offering antipasti, meats and cheeses for customers to snack on or take away; and an abundant Food Store featuring a Brunetti’s own pasta range and an array of exclusive gourmet products hand-sourced from Italy.

At the rear of the café is the Gelateria filled with over 40 flavours of gelati made daily from fresh, natural ingredients as well as Brunetti’s most significant addition – an informal a la carte restaurant.