The Ultimate Full English Breakfast at London’s Oldest Italian Cafe | Family Food

Established in 1900, E Pellicci – a charming, family-owned Italian restaurant in London’s East End – has seen off two World Wars, a global pandemic, and 125 years of flux in the city’s most chaotic neighborhood. We paid a visit to meet its current custodian Nevio Pellicci and the rest of his clan, who served us up some delicious Italian cuisine and an eyebrow-raising lesson in the art of staying alive when all around you eateries are going to the wall. From their famous full English breakfast to authentic cannelloni, there are plenty of reasons people have been going back to E Pellicci for generations.

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some people say to me oh I’ll never go nowhere to eat on my own but I’ll come in here and eat on my own cuz you’re not on your own when you come in here I might put you a someone or I’ll come and have a chat with you and drive you mad or Anna will come and have a chat and drive you mad it’s like coming into our front room when you come in here took the kids to school and everything was falling you do yeah you ain’t never done that have you never you don’t even know where the kids go at school do you you don’t even know what how many kids you got anymore do you we’re in pich’s Cafe so this is my family’s Cafe it’s been in our family for over a hundred years my name is neichi I was born in Bethal green as you can see from my Cockney accent I’m the grandson of the original owner of the cafe I’m working on my mom my sister my cousin I used to work with my dad before he passed away it’s like our second home years ago mama said when she first started working it was mainly English food if it be Hamming and chips and saus and bacon or egg chips and beans and then I remember she said she started making spaghetti like spaghetti bolog she start making canalon just start making lasagna people start eating the lasagna now that’s what we do lasagna canalon we still do our breakfast every got fancy chips she’s 81 she loves she loves coming in in the morning she walks around we live she lives just around the corner so she walks around in the morning she might make a jam tart she makes her Nella rly poly she makes her pies look at that mama’s red pudding it’s beautiful she cooked it this morning how good is that she’ll make sure the SW is okay CU your supervisor quality control sometimes she might say oh well she do it without you even knowing put a little bit of Sal in or she put a little bit of Pepper or she do something she’s not one of these chefs oh she got to go byy the it’s got to be this much this and 10 G of that and two G of that and she’s Lo like all little bit this little bit that oh that don’t feel right a little bit more butter and it comes out [Music] amazing yeah he was old school the old man he didn’t mess about I would have been allowed to talk I wouldn’t have been allowed to talk as much as um as I do now now I got free rain but when the old man was about it was like it was work work first talk second football all the Italian flags go up sorry Modo that’s what which means the earthquake I knock everything over yeah when the when the football comes on all the Italian flags come out we’re very proud of our Italian Heritage but I’m really proud to be an East Ender to be a cotney as well you coming here you’re getting the Italian culture Mama makes a bit of this she does a bit of Italian food she does a bit of English cooking you get Tony speaking Italian we got little Irene Italian then you got like all the EastEnders you got Jimmy who got isue don’t talk about Jimmy you got a bit of everything we like to make you feel welcome we talk to you we chat to you oh that you no mushrooms why you having no mushrooms I would not let M sit next to Norman I’m just telling you now he’s looking for wife number four wait look this is what you call Posh when you eat your sandwich with a knife and FK you know what I mean that’s the sort of customers I getting here nowadays I don’t know if you can see this picture above me this is my Grandad and there’s another little picture over there of my grandmother early there who the cafe is named after eichi when she was about 2 years old the family decided to move back to Italy to Tuscany when she was 20 she came back with my granddad they just got married and they came back and actually worked in the cafe for a guy that owned the cafe we don’t know his name so in about 1902 1903 he decided to go back to Italy and my grandpar parents brought the Cafe off of him the rest is history it’s been in our family ever since hello sir oh you are you with him are you m I should be saying that to you oh you I should be saying that to you you’re not with him are you yeah oh my God I thought you was a bit clarier than that Madam I’ve get all sorts of people coming here you get like um the stall holders you get like CEOs of company you get artists um film stars literally you you name it with probably Adam in yeah he’s come from New York just to eat here this man I came all have you seen the new 7even up logo the amazing new 7even up logo this man designed is it any of these that one oh this one yeah that’s nice it’s the same as the old bloody one and they paid you for that oh my God I’m going to go to New York man be a graphic designer design the new Coca-Cola logo the crats used to come in yeah before my time so but my mom would make them breakfast every morning you think years ago you didn’t have mobile phones and if people wanted to see them knew they’d be here from 6:00 to 7:00 or something they’ come in and say oh Reggie or Ronnie or whatever they was always very nice apparently in here we didn’t know too much of what they did you get them coming now probably worse than they are do you know what I mean but in here they’re nice talk to Mama and hello Mama and very respectful to Mom and what makes felichi special I don’t know you have to ask the customers that I think it’s me no I’m only I think it’s the family thing you got Tony who’s been here for so long my sister Anna she’s mad like you see her with a customer she makes everyone laugh and I’ve seen loads of great friendships start in [Music] here we just like to make everyone feel happy come in and you you we want you to leave feeling warm and happier than when you come in so people I think they they like appreciate that we’re what we’re doing they do like we get a lot of love from all the people on that and it’s nice that you feel that it’s good like that they they come in and they go oh don’t ever be a chain Le and I’m like nah unless you want to buy a we sell out for lot of [Music] money sir I was only joking he W really steal your wife I was only messing about that he got worried didn’t he we’ve already made rang what she SL in her oh Norman