Zilli Cafe

Located on the upper level 'Taste of Zilli' will offer visitors café style eating, with Italian street food, in a relaxed, stylish and quiet setting away from the hustle and bustle of the main Show.  The cafe occupies over 500 sq metres allowing for plenty of people at a time to enjoy the 'Taste of Zilli' experience.

The Café will offer teas, coffees, Italian pastries, soft drinks & snacks.

Aldo Zilli

Aldo Zilli is chef patron of the Zilli Fish group and is one of Soho's most flamboyant restaurateurs. Owner of Zilli Fish (the flagship restaurant), Zilli Café, Signor Zilli and Zilli Bar, Aldo is a larger than life personality whose profile has rocketed in recent years.

2009 has seen Aldo as busy as ever with appearances on BBC 2's Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is - Aldo was pitted against Nick Nairn and won his week's worth of challenges comfortably. He continues as a favourite on BBC 2's Ready Steady Cook and ITV 1's Daily Cooks Challenge.

Aldo has been resident chef for The Sun newspaper, and has written several books: Sainsbury's Quick and Easy Italian Food; Aldo's Italian Food For Friends (1998) and Zilli Fish (1999), Foolproof Italian (BBC Books) March 2001 and Simon & Schuster published The Zilli Cook Book in October 2003. His latest books are Fish Cook (Jacqui Small Books, 2006) and his autobiography, Being Zilli (John Blake, 2008).  Aldo is currently working on his latest cookery book, provisionally entitled Zilli Fit, is due for release early Spring 2010.