About Us

Experience, you bet!
Alfredo has developed his skills as a chef working, and running restaurants in locations as exotic as China, romantic as Vanuatu and Fiji, and as spectacular as Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills.

In 1971, Alfredo and his brother took their first steps into the food industry by opening a Pizza bar in Seaton.  Little did he know that 10 years later, in 1981, he would begin a journey that would take him around Adelaide and, indeed the World.  Here is a run down of his nearly 40 years working in the industry:

* 1971 - 1981    part owned Seaton pizza bar 
* 1981 - 1983    Morgan’s licensed restaurant Hahndorf 
* 1983 - 1987    worked at Casa Blanca as a head chef 
* 1987 - 1993    Owned Valentino's licensed restaurant Adelaide City 
* 1993 - 1996    Owned pizza bar at Wattle Park 
* 1996 - 1997    Managed, ran and head chef La Pantanus restaurant in VANUATU 
* 1997 - 1998    Managed and ran the Mediterranean Inn holiday resort and restaurant FIJI 
* 1998 - 1999    Part owned and head chef of Cafe Bon Giorno at West Lakes 
* 1999 - 2000    Head chef for Cafe Bon Giorno on Unley road 
* 2000 - 2004    Worked as head chef for Oggi Cafe 
* 2004 - 2005    Managed and help set up three European cafes in Xian, CHINA 
* 2007 - 2008    Managed and set up cafe on Grange at Kidman park
* 2009 - Present Part owner of Cafe Sabatini, which we gutted and renovated on our own to a beautiful cafe now also specializing in Gluten free foods

The Cafe Sabatini Years

Janet met Alf when she worked as a cleaner at Cafe on Grange part time which he was managing at the time. Janet then was then upgraded to dishwasher when the Cafe found themselves short one day. Janet then worked her way up to become the front of house at the Cafe when Alf was not at the Cafe.

Janet and Alf became firm friends and, when the Cafe on Grange was sold, they decided, as they worked so well as a team in the Cafe, it would be nice to have their own.

Hence Cafe Sabatini.

Here are some photographs of the transition from 'not' Cafe Sabatini to Cafe Sabatini.