Breakfast, lunch and cake can all belong to the same afternoon.
There are cafés you visit for coffee, places you choose for breakfast, and others you save for something sweet. Karamelli manages to blur all three.
Set on Republic Street in the centre of Victoria, the café describes itself as an all-day brunch spot built around cosy comfort, a modern twist, specialty coffee and desserts made fresh in-house every morning. Its own philosophy is almost an invitation to slow down: come for breakfast, stay through lunch.
That is exactly the kind of place that makes sense in Gozo. You can arrive with a plan for a quick stop and leave considerably later after the table has somehow progressed from breakfast to fries, from drinks to cheesecake.
For our Comino Magazine visit, we deliberately chose a spread that crossed different parts of the menu. The result was less a single meal than a useful snapshot of Karamelli's personality: plant-based comfort, international brunch influences, indulgent sides, colourful drinks and desserts that refuse to be treated as an afterthought.
