Rinaldo Massoni purchased Café Denat in Bourke Street, Melbourne and changed the name to Café Florentino. Now called Grossi Florentino, it is Melbourne’s oldest restaurant. Restaurant dynasties like the Massoni and Triaca families emerged in the 1920s.  However, Italian culinary traditions had little immediate impact on the domestic cuisine of the Anglo middle-class family.  Café … Continue reading 1928 Melbourne’s Café Florentino founded