Osteria Vibrato is An Homage to Italian Classics

It’s 8pm on a Monday, and Charlie Mellor is walking through Osteria Vibrato’s dining room, tapping a wine glass with his spoon to alert us all that the evening’s live pianist is about to begin. The full restaurant hushes and the music begins. Suddenly we are all transported. We’re not in Soho, London – we’re in New York in the 1950s, maybe. 

Mid-century New York wasn’t the era Mellor (previously of The Laughing Heart) and his co-founder Cameron Dewar (ex Luca) intended to capture when they launched this new restaurant earlier this spring, but its warm old-fashioned hospitality, soundtracked by li...