We cook the food we eat at home.

It is a short, frequently changing menu of simple, seasonal and regional dishes. This means we base dishes on what’s best at market, every 4-6 weeks, and cook it all without compromise or adaptation.

We don’t ladle on cream or boil red vats of napoli sauce. Partly, you could say we’re home-style River Café, but truer to say real Italian trattoria food, where good cuisine hides in less obvious places.

Ingredients are flown in by Italian specialists or sent as food parcels from Stefano’s father in Venice. Our wines avoid the clichés, concentrating on innovative new producers and unusual grape varieties at reasonable prices. A long list of heart-warming grappas rounds off the list.

Sited in a former car accessories shop in Whalley Range, Palmiro is situated at the character end of the ever expanding ‘Chorlton borders’. We worked hard for five months to rebuild the stark interior, plastering with natural pigments and stucco. Our chairs are 1950’s originals, and our logo is an Italian art deco typeface.

Backing onto the wooded copse at the start of tree-lined College Road, our angular herb garden, complete with decking and a budding olive tree, stands to the front where once there was only patched concrete.