Barbino – which has previously had residencies at other Brighton and Hove venues including Cases Wine Bar, Little Bruce Coffee and Shoreline – will offer bar snacks on Fridays and Saturdays and roasts on Sundays.
Inspired by the Mediterranean and created by Cin Cin chef and co-owner Jamie Halsall, the menu will include venison and guanciale sausage roll with roasted pear and ketchup; beef and mushroom pie; pork bombetta and ’nduja kimchi sub; and sticky toffee pudding with whipped mascarpone.
Barbino will take the upstairs space that was previously home to chef Ali Munro’s Alberta’s.
Cin Cin started out as a street food and pop-up business in Brighton and Hove trading from a vintage Fiat van and specialising in Italian cured meats, cheese and prosecco.
In 2016, Toscano, working with Halsall, moved the business into a former MOT garage in a central but decidedly off-pitch location on Vine Street in the city’s North Laine area.
The pair opened their second restaurant on Western Road in Hove in January 2018, with the original Vine Street site eventually closing in late 2021 amid the fallout from the pandemic.
In 2021, the pair brought Cin Cin to London with a restaurant in Fitzrovia.
The site was well received but closed late last year after three and a half years of trading, with Toscano saying at the time that it “felt like the right time to consolidate their efforts” and that the team chose to close after receiving a “fair offer” for the Fitzrovia site.