Maltese 'pasticceria' in London
Parparellu has become the first Maltese 'pasticceria' to open in London.
The High Commissioner of Malta, Joe Zammit Tabona, officially opened the café as guests were treated to a wide selection of mouth-watering savoury and sweet delicacies from the Parparellu menu, including 'pastizzi', 'qassatat', 'timpana' and 'kannoli'.
A large number of Maltese Londoners have since flocked to Parparellu on Fulham Palace Road to get a taste of home.
Owner Joseph Pace described the outlet as a place where tradition meets contemporary, taking to London the best of Maltese pastry.
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Joe Xuereb
Oct 5th 2012, 00:09
@ Andrew Calleja (Today, 16:06). Mr. Calleja, so Parparellu is between the hospital and Hammersmith Tube is it?! Wow! I can walk there. I must have gone past it several times a week and never noticed. This being London, foodie outlets open all over the place, all the time.
PS There was a dingy looking Polish restaurant called Spitfire - of all names! - which closed down (and I never saw anybody go in or out, it's facade was so foreboding. Maybe Parparellu has taken its place.
@ C. Cassar. Mr.(?) Cassar, if one wants to eat healthily in London, one is spoilt for choice. On the other hand, a little bit of what one fancies, with a little bit of guilt on the side, never did hurt anyone. There is nothing sadder than a misery guts who eats all the right things all of the time - and for what exactly? So as not to be classed as obese?! Small reward for so much deprivation, methinks.
Rosalie Freestone Bayes
Oct 4th 2012, 19:42
For those people who live far from London there is the company Mediterranean Delights from Peterborough and they deliver to your home.They have pastizzi Qassatat, Kinnie galletti etc Go to their site . I have tasted the Fulham shop's pastizzi but I will go and see it for myself now I know about it.No they are not very healthy---but I don't eat them everyday,They boost my good feeling and I think of home.Well done Mr.Pace
Andrew Calleja
Oct 4th 2012, 16:06
Know exactly were it is. Just out of Hammersmith tube station direction towards Charing Cross Hospital. Its just about a 500m walk away. Will definitely give it a visit.
ANTHONY WELLMAN
Oct 4th 2012, 15:27
great to have a Maltese pasticceria in lond great to support and do a vist
Morana Axisa
Oct 4th 2012, 15:08
IRRIDU STARBUCKS MALTA ISSA!
Joe Xuereb
Oct 4th 2012, 14:37
I'll have a couple of cheesecakes and a large Kinnie please.
I live a short bus ride away from the Fulham Palace Road. So now all I have to do is get the street number is it is quite a long road and I get impatient.
Thank you Mr. Pace.
And an interesting website: http://www.foreign.gov.mt/Library/PDF/HCL%20Newsletter%20June%202012.pdf
http://www.maltabusinessnetwork.com/pages/view/10785/maltese-cafe-to-open-in-london]]
PS. I fouhd another website and apparently, Parparellu is at number 93 on the Fulham Palace Road W6.8JA.
Charles Cremona
Oct 4th 2012, 13:54
I live on the west coast of England and don,t visit london that often but I will make a note of this place and will visit next time I'm there for the pastizzi.
Chris Tuckley
Oct 4th 2012, 16:29
Charles. If you want Maltese goods check out Mediterranean delights mail order M altese cuisine
C Cassar
Oct 4th 2012, 13:18
Shame the shop isn't promoting something healthy.
Joseph Attard
Oct 4th 2012, 13:31
It is business , not health promotion outlet.
Ivor Ramsden
Oct 4th 2012, 13:49
For goodness sake, can't you find something positive to say?
This is a great advertisement for Malta and somewhere that expats can find a reminder of home.
Lucienne Dimech
Oct 4th 2012, 14:02
I know of no pasticceria that is healthy. Maybe had it been a restaurant it could promote the soap Ta l-armload and mi extra but healthy sweets? If you know of any p,ease lemme know I would live nothing better than to be healthy while enjoying sweet things.
Lucienne Dimech
Oct 4th 2012, 14:03
I know of no pasticceria that is healthy. Maybe had it been a restaurant it could promote the soap Ta l-armload and mi extra but healthy sweets? If you know of any p,ease lemme know I would live nothing better than to be healthy while enjoying sweet things.
Colin Stanley
Oct 4th 2012, 14:13
who cares as long as there is traditional eats. well done, hope it will be a success.
M Spiteri
Oct 4th 2012, 14:15
because Subway, Costa, Starbuck, McDOnalds and Co all offer healthy eating.....dejjem irridu nmaqdru!
C. Bonnici
Oct 4th 2012, 14:36
C Cassar, you need a HEAVY dose of optimism :)
Charles DeMicoli
Oct 4th 2012, 15:10
Of all the hundreds of pasticcerias and dolcerias and sweet shops and donut shops in London, you C C, had to leave a disparaging comment about Parparellu. Is it because it's owned by a Maltese or has to do with maltese snacks? You sound like a self-hating-maltese to me. Lighten up. Eat a kannoli, it might sweeten your attitude.
C Cassar
Oct 4th 2012, 15:45
It was a great opportunity to promote the Mediterranean diet that was traditionally Maltese. However, I forgot the lack of imagination of the Maltese who only think of the next euro in their pocket rather than a long term view of their traditional culture. Still, why not promote the fact that the Maltese are the most obese and unhealthy in Europe through a shop selling fast food?
Chris Tuckley
Oct 4th 2012, 16:39
What are rabbiting on about, Pastizzi healthy cheese and you have the peas one of you 5 a day . Kinnie the best soft dring in the world not made from chemicals like the colas are. Burger King MacDonalds plus many other fast food outlets and you have a go at one Maltese outlet. Obviously someone in Malta as upset you. I am English and welcome the place although I live over 200 miles from London.
Gillian Snook
Oct 4th 2012, 17:28
You're missing the point. It's easy to buy healthy snacks in London, but until now it was impossible to get a "taste of home". Perhaps it will catch on in other cities in the UK.
Charles Cremona
Oct 4th 2012, 19:48
@ C.Cassar: Many UK Maltese like me who left their homeland many years ago like to indulge in some traditional Maltese food from time to time and couldn't care less of what you think. I was in Sydney not long ago and one of the highlights on a sunday morning was driving down the Maltese Pastizzi shop in Oxford street for cheess cakes and tea.
George Caruana
Oct 4th 2012, 13:03
To be honest I am suprised this hasnt already been done especially during the times when SOHO was heavily populated by us Maltese.
Its good to see we are getting things in other countries.
VIVA MALTA!!!!!!!!
Trevor Lorenzo Mizzi
Oct 4th 2012, 17:24
According to urban legend and lore; they were too busy being ponces and pornographers.
Vanessa Grech
Oct 4th 2012, 12:53
Mmmmm, how I'd like it to open also in Rome!!
C. Bonnici
Oct 4th 2012, 14:35
But Vanessa, Malta is just a few minutes away :)
Vanessa Grech
Oct 4th 2012, 19:44
but it's a bit difficult to come whenever I want to eat some pastizzi!!!
Vanessa Grech
Oct 4th 2012, 19:47
But it's a bit far away and a bit expensive to come whenever I want to eat some pastizzi!!!
George Briffa
Oct 4th 2012, 12:52
I live in York and rarely visit London. Now I have a good reason to visit the Capital. Yummy
Anthony Arpa
Oct 4th 2012, 13:14
George you live in a very nice historic city ... i have been to York few times ... It is a long way a weekend break to London and visit this place .... Have a nice day .
Joseph M Scicluna
Oct 4th 2012, 13:15
I live in Malta but the first time I happen to be forf just a holiday in London, I will surely drop on Parparellu !!
Congratulations to Mr Pace.
Angelo Polidano
Oct 4th 2012, 14:30
George, can't you go a bit further and come to Malta and stuff your face until your heart's content? I am sure you will have a wider choice.
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