Luigi Terroni opened his delicatessen at 138 Clerkenwell Road in 1878, when the surrounding streets were the centre of London's Italian community and the shop stood beside St Peter's Italian church. The Terroni family sold the business to the Anessa family in 1983, who still run it; the shop closed in 2003 and reopened in 2012 at twice its former size, with an espresso bar built into the back of the room. Shelves carry De Cecco pasta, Negroni charcuterie, Mulino Bianco biscuits and Baci chocolates alongside British and Italian cheeses, with daily specials chalked on a blackboard by the counter. Panettone and pandoro from Bauli appear each winter. The espresso bar draws its own trade from Clerkenwell Road independent of the deli counter, so customers queue for coffee and for prosciutto in the same narrow room.
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