Name a restaurant where you can go for a business breakfast,pre-theatre oysters,a mid-shopping spritz and a slap-up dinner with friends. Stumped? Try Elio’s Place.
It’s open for focaccia with soft-boiled egg and smoked trout right through to potato rosti piped with trout mousse at knock off time. The split-level space in an old Victorian building is warmed up by timber,cork,frosted glass and eclectic art.
Find a window perch or hidden nook,pick at ox tongue skewers lathered with mustard dressing and sip an Americano Perfecto,made crisp from lager (not the usual soda).
Campanelle,the cone-shaped pasta,is stained with pumpkin-miso sauce scattered exuberantly with chives. Frittelle di riso,the Italian creamed-rice doughnuts,come with kumquat custard for dunking. It’s a ritual as comforting as knowing that there’s never a wrong time to visit.