TravelDog heads to an Italian restaurant in London that has been family run for 42 years and is nestled in leafy Bloomsbury Square. Famed for their charm and food TravelDog delves into the lunch special at Caffè Tropea on the day he visits, fresh fusilli pasta in the family’s tomato sauce with oozy buratta cheese.
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42 Years
And Counting.
Our Story – We’ve been serving Bloomsbury’s eclectic community from its leafy heart in Russell Square gardens since 1981. Times have changed since then – artists, writers and students have come and gone – but with the support of our loyal customers, we continue to dish up home-cooked recipes just like nonna taught us.
“For things to stay the same they must change.”*
*Source: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard.
A Family Affair
Our family left Italy for the UK in the early ‘60s and we opened our first London caff in 1968 – a time when Italians were at the forefront of the hospitality industry and ‘spag bol’ was fast becoming a British favourite.
When mamma came to London and married papà in the ‘80s, she introduced a new wave of Italian cuisine to our caffè. Today, she still spends most of her time in the kitchen while papà enthusiastically welcomes people through our doors. But every now and then they return to Calabria to enjoy the family’s homemade wine and extra virgin olive oil carefully harvested from the family’s orchards.
Travel Dog here and in today’s video we are heading off to this cafe in beautiful Russell Square in London. Um heard loads about this cafe. Seems to be quite a cool funky place. I can already see loads of people at it. I think it does all sorts of things from pasta to omelets and all sort of things. But we will find out a little bit more as we go closer. [Music] So, I’m just walking through this super funky tree archway up to the cafe which is just here on the left and it is called Tropea. Look at that. Loads of people out here today. First sunny day in London for months it feels. And everybody’s obviously out and about sunning themselves up getting ready for a bit of food. So, let’s head in and see what happens. [Music] [Music] Heat up here. [Music] So, here we are sitting at Shopa in a Russell square we just ordered. I went for the uh sort of pasta special of the day. Brazili pasta with I think like tomato sauce and baratha. Mrs. D went for plain omelette and chipmunks. Um looks pretty cool here. Really friendly uh waiting staff all decked out. It’s like zies and things. Uh there’s quite a lot of information about this place. It’s actually like a sort of familyun restaurant. Actually got a little booklet all about it here saying appreciation of cafe tropea Russia squares for its very own Italian family restaurant named after the family themselves hail from trapea in Calabria the toe of Italy’s boot more than 40 years of elapse since then when the family first moved here and the family have continued their goal of creating good food in a place where locals feel loved and newcomers feel like old friends. Pretty cool. Let’s see what the food is like. Yeah, so far really good vibe. really classic nice spot. Um we’re sitting outside cuz it’s actually hot day and it’s really nice vibe so [Music] [Music] far. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay, so Travel Dog food is here. Looks really tasty. I’m going to delve in primarily to this gigantic baratha ball. Actually, let’s just try the basic pasta before we go. Baratha ball. It looks really nice. Lovely big seathing hunks of pasta in there. You go. Really good. Obviously, beautiful rich tomato sauce. Really nice. Not too heavy, still quite light. Um, bit of parmesan on it, but beyond that, the actual pasture itself, really nice sort of al dente, but quite thick, chewy, hunky bits of it. I’m not sure the pasta is homemade, but if it isn’t, it’s really good quality pasta. It’s just got a real nice thickness to it. Sort of heavy thick quality to it. Sort of like Oh, it feels nourishing and thick. Not like sort of a lot of the pasta you get. It’s just sort of a bit Yeah, it’s really nice. Really good thick taste. Let’s break into the bara ball. Here we go. Oh man, look at that. That was good. Oh, look at that. That is one mega thing, man. Man. Oh, you just fancy shoving it on a spoon, don’t you? Look at it. It’s like cream, that cheese. Absolutely stunning. Right, let’s go. Of course, first mouthful of the baratha and the pasta together. That’s amazing. That’s insanely creamy. It’s weird. The baratha adds a kind of cooling quality to the whole thing. And now it’s made all the sauce go kind of more like pink. It’s kind of cooling. This is amazingly deep rich flavor. That cheese. That is really good. There’s lots of crust on the cheese as well. Mega crust to itself, which is just so [Music] good. The pasta is absolutely amazing. Just such a rich flavor. I think I’ve had bara before, but it’s never tasted like this. This tastes like really fresh out of the beast. It’s mainly because you just swallow it down. There’s this lovely rich flavor of the cheese. It’s really deepous flavor that comes off it. Look at that. You can see that creamy pinkness. It’s all turned into. It’s really cool. So creamy and pink and toasty and amazing. So, as I obviously knew, not like I had to look it up on Google, Baratha is an Italian cow’s milk cheese made from mozzarella cream. The outer casing is solid, as you can see. The outer casing solid cheese while the inside came straed cream. Oh man, it’s tastes so rich. Giving the unusual soft texture special of the pulya region outside Italy. Lucky I knew all that off by looked every millisecond of that thing. Absolutely stunning. Really, really super tasty, man. Really good. Don’t normally go for pasture or stuff like that. I normally go for veggie food, but um absolutely stunning. Stunning. You didn’t miss any meat on that. That’s what I was so nice about it cuz it’s quite light as well. It wasn’t like mega heavy. Just slither down with this sort of sense of joy and happiness. Just light, fresh, fragrant, tasty, beautiful tomato and that baratha ball was just oh mega oozing of that cream and stuff inside it. Just absolutely dreamy. $14.95 for that. Not the cheapest thing, but it was their daily special. I think some of the other pastas are more like 11 12.95. I think we paid what was the omelette and chips all together £32 and fresh orange juice. So not cheap London rarely seems to be cheap. But anyway, absolutely brilliant food. Really worth coming to try this place out in Russell Square. Really entertaining. And of course do not forget to like and subscribe. So as ever photographers, bye-bye.
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