Oswestry's Enrico gets a pizza the action
Enrico Vittone has gone full circle in his colourful life.
The 51-year old Italian, who was born on the floor of his parents' patisserie in Turin, has now opened up his own bakery in Oswestry.
He is selling pizzas and other savoury treats from a window of Italiano Vero overlooking Bailey Head and says he soon hopes to be baking the cakes and pastries 'just like mama used to make'.
In fact his savouries are already selling like hot cakes with often a queue forming outside the window hatch at lunchtimes. He arrived in the Oswestry area five years ago working as a veterinary assistant.
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When the job disappeared he decided to try to fulfil his long held dream, of opening a bakery.
"My family ran a patisserie in Turin for 35 years and my mother taught me to cook. I worked there until I had to join the army."
Mr Vittone left Italy at the age of 21 and has lived all over Europe. "I wanted to buy my own premises but I could not get the finances. The banks told me I did not have enough deposit to get a mortgage. I thought my dream was over.
"Then I walked past these empty kitchens attached to the pub and thought 'I could run my business from here'. So I went into the pub and asked if I could rent out the kitchens. Now Italiano Vero is open.
"I am looking forward to developing the business into a patisserie, something that is usually only found in big cities."
