Belli Bar

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• Belli Bar

  Helen Greenwood, reviewer

  Saturday, March 31, 2007

  The Italians took their cue from the English, and the tramezzino was born.

  A Fiat Bambino negotiates Norton Street's Saturday lunch-time traffic jam. Italian stripes blazing and the bass on its sound system booming, the midget car crawls past a streetscape that is a post-modern pastiche. Terrace houses, exposed brick and iron-lace balconies. Glass, terracotta and overhangs on stainless steel struts. Palm trees and eucalypts, umbrellas and signs. There are bookshops, cinemas, a bridal registry, shoe shops, therapy salons and cafes, lots and lots of cafes. I mention this because it's hard to find Belli Bar among the awnings and assorted facades. But it's there with a large blue shade-cloth shielding an open terrace that leads into a cool, timber space. We're here because we've heard that tramezzino, the Italian sandwich, is the hero of this particular cafe. There's some debate about the origins of this cafe snack. The Italian born in Lombardy at our table shrugs and says, "I never saw it growing up. It's not from my region." We guess it dates fro...

  Source: Sydney Morning Herald

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