Da Vittorio Café Louis Vuitton

There are brunch spots and then there is having breakfast in what can only be described as a fashionista’s secret garden, heralding the entrance to one of the world’s most iconic fashion houses.

Da Vittoria Café Louis Vuitton, a collaboration between the three-Michelin-starred Cerea family and Louis Vuitton, occupies the former courtyard of Palazzo Taverna, transformed into a luminous jardin d’hiver with glass ceilings and the sort of refined elegance you’d expect from both parties. 

Alongside an upstairs fine dining restaurant, the café is the partnership’s breakfast to lunch offering, taking guests from early cappuccino to Caesar salad via a showstopping mix of incredible patisserie. We arrived for brunch and were immediately charmed. Fresh croissants with apricot jam were buttery and properly laminated. Poached eggs arrived perfectly cooked. But, it was the chocolate-encased signature cakes, including the Insta-worthy monogrammed chocolate mouse cake bearing the signature LV insignia that truly captured the spirit of the place: luxury rendered delicious, attention to detail in every bite.

Arriving as Easter approached, we were gifted an extra slice of Colomba Pasquale – that Italian Easter equivalent of Christmas’s panettone, all fluffy slow-leavened brioche dough studded with candied citrus, topped with crisp pearl sugar and almond glaze. It was insanely good in the best possible way, the sort of treat that has you reaching for just one more piece before you realise you’ve polished off the lot. A feat made easier when washed down but a proper Italian cappuccino, this one bearing the LV logo in foam, because, of course. 

Much like its eponymous fashion house, Da Vittoria Café Louis Vuitton is unashamedly luxurious and unapologetically beautiful, it is also genuinely delicious. Perfect for when you want brunch to feel like a proper occasion or simply because you are worth it.

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