Alimentari, in Melbourne, Australia, was opened in 1998 by two friends who thought their neighbourhood needed a good continental deli. Dolores (“Dee”) Napolitano (who died in 2010) and Linda Malcolm (as she was then, before she married Paul Jones) started off small, opening on a shoestring, and with only two tables.“The idea for an ‘alimentari’ (which is essentially an Italian grocery store) came about after I’d travelled through Italy and pretty much...
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