ABOUT
ADDRESS:
Shop 8/4-6 Gilbert St, Torquay, Victoria 3228
PHONE:
0466 888 145
EMAIL:
hello@mortadeli.com.au
INSTAGRAM:
instagram.com/morta.deli
Mortadeli owner, Jake Cassar, a former travel agent, made the bold move to relocate to Torquay at the beginning of the pandemic. He quickly discovered that access to Mediterranean delights were no longer at his fingertips, and he longed for the flavours of Europe, a destination that was now restricted from satisfying his travel fixation, prompting him to open Mortadeli.
What started out as a humble part-diner/deli swiftly grew legs and extended across the piazza, to include a pasta bar and expand the delicatessen, in a fresh and abundant shopfront.
The culinary offering leans into Jake’s Maltese heritage, surfacing memories of spending school holidays at his Nannu and Nana’s house, helping them harvest fresh fruit and vegetables and cooking together. This later inspired his own passion for food, priming him to leave school and become an apprentice chef, which took him to all corners of the world, where he cooked and frolicked throughout much of his 20’s. His desire to travel preoccupied him away from the kitchen and he made it the centrepiece of his newly awoken lifestyle, informing the inspiration for Mortadeli’s look, feel and flavours, after his years of extensive world wide travel.
Mortadeli is a chimera realised, a place where the community and visitors to the Surf Coast can connect over the most important thing in this life – the pleasures of good food and good drink.
