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Tiamo Restaurant
Ph: (03) 9347 5759; 303 Lygon St, Carlton 3053
italian, $
Open mon-sat 1am-11pm sun 8am-10pm; Licensed, BYO; MC V EFT; No bookings
Mietta's Review
Founded in 1967 it's still young and still packing them in. The bohemians of old, the students of now, the locals and the Lygon St tourists. Tiamo looks after them (loves them even) the same as always. Friendly, homely but with a style. Coffee is a favourite here. You can still get good gnocchi and scaloppine, they buy good-quality meat and cook it the old-fashioned way. Nestling right beside the original loved one, the emphasis at Tiamo 2 is more on food, more tables for eating. Both places have tables outside on the Lygon St footpath and are always busy. Alberto (who shares ownership of both places) says the food here is 'fiddly southern style cooking, more gourmet - more upmarket.' Take your pick.
Other published opinions
The Age Cheap Eats 2008 "Rusted-on? Nothing's more stuck than this Lygon icon, dishing up comforting Italian staples to a following that's been coming here for yonks"
The Age Matt Preston, 4-6-2007 "The lighting is soft, music ranges from the obscure to kitsch and most people seem to be drinking red served in carafes. We sit for hours at the communal table as three different couples of mixed gender come and go. By turns Carlton intellectuals, beanie-clad skaters and geeky office types. Mostly they come for one course - probably a bowl of pasta."
The Age Cheap Eats 2007 "Groundbreaking research has found that time travel is possible. Enter this cluttered, lamplit Lygon Street portal and be whisked to an era before multi' prefixed national."
The Age Cheap Eats 2006 The fare on offer at this Carlton time capsule is as daggy as the easy-listening soundtrack, and just as reliable
The Age Cheap Eats 2005 "THERE'S something in the air and it's more than the scent of good espresso. Tiamo's scuffed lino has a patina no interior designer could recreate: that of a well-loved restaurant."
The Age, A2, 6/12/03, John Weldon,'is one of the better reason's to visit Carlton these days'
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