Gino's Details

Established Italian cafe with a streetside patio, serving seafood, housemade pasta & gourmet coffee.

“I was a tailor, started when I was 6 years old. My father, mother, all my family tailors. I came from a little village straight to Fremantle. Fremantle’s the best place to live, the best. I started about 30 years ago with Sorrento Tailors on the corner here, for twenty two years, tailoring! Every morning I start at four o’clock. I used to go to the Marina Coffee Lounge in the morning and I always complain the coffee is no good. I say, ‘Look, you don’t want to make better coffee, change your coffee or I open a coffee shop!’ For a joke, then I say to my wife, ‘We ’ re going to Italy for a holiday’. After I arrived over there I go and look for coffee. I never say anything to anybody. I come back after six weeks, I put ‘Close Down Sale’ in the window, close down men’s wear store. My wife she come down and went crazy! ‘What are you doing there?’ “I want to open a coffee shop; Gino’s”. My wife, she didn’t want me to do that but I wanted to do something different. Twenty-ninth of November it’s eleven years! now I go through one hundred and fifty kilo of coffee a week. For thirty two years I’ve been on this corner, always this corner, and the people, they like my coffee.” Gino Saccone 1937 – 2001