Former reality TV star, Zana Pali, 26, is far from issuing a mea culpa.
Instead she’s unapologetically embracing her new Melbourne Italian café, Culpa Espresso.
On Thursday, the MKR star shared a photo with her 94,300 Instagram fans offering them a glimpse of her new Italian cafe, located in central Melbourne.
‘We’re already giving businesses a run for their money:’ My Kitchen Rules Star, Zana Pali poses in her new Melbourne café
Posing in front of her cafe counter, Zana looks quietly confident in the photo and wrote an equally self-assured caption.
‘It’s hard not to smile when we are the new kids on the block and already giving the others a run for their money,’ she wrote.
‘Only a new little baby yet so proud! Culpa Espresso. Thank you to Perinitiles for supplying us with the most beautiful floor and wall tiles. As soon as I saw them I knew we had to have them!!!!’
Brava! Many Instagram followers praised Zana for her styling of the new Melbourne cafe
The snap reveals an assortment of artisan Italian desserts and pastries, a luxe coffee machine and friendly wait-staff in the background.
The café was decked out with marble bench tops and hand-painted tiles imported from Italy.
Last December the 26-year-old revealed told Daily Mail Australia she was opening an Italian cafe in Melbourne.
Former high-flying lawyer, Zana Pali courted controversy with her no-holds-barred criticism on My Kitchen Rules
‘It’ll be my first hospitality venture with more to come,’ she said.
Zana is a lawyer by profession but stepped back from law to work at Lygon Street restaurant 400 Gradi, earlier in the year.
‘I’ve left Gradi to pursue my own hospitality dreams,’ Zana explained, ‘I have a business partner who is also a lawyer and we are both opening espresso bars around Melbourne.’
Team Romano! Zana and her husband Gianni competed on the 2016 series of My Kitchen Rules
Zana is married to Gianni Romano, who is of Italian heritage, which may have inspired the coffee shop.
‘It’s Italian themed/ Florence style with marble bench tops and the tiles all being hand crafted and painted in Italy,’ she divulged.
‘It’s called Culpa Espresso Latin for guilty as it’s near the courts.’
‘It’s Florence style’ Zana’s husband Gianni Romano is of Italian heritage, which may have inspired her coffee shop’s interiors and cuisine
The fare that will be on offer at Culpa will certainly fulfill the guilty pleasures of some.
‘It’ll be high end, proper stuff from Italy,’ reveals Zana.
‘Desserts and pastries are all from little artisan Italian paticcieria and there will be handmade Italian panninis and the like.’
‘It’s called Culpa Espresso Latin for guilty as it’s near the courts’ Zana’s coffee shop will be located on Melbourne’s William Street
Although Zana and her husband are a tight unit, this will be her project.
‘Gianni is staying in law this is more my dream but he’s always there helping and supporting me,’ she said.
Late last year, Zana treated fans to a full look at both the interior and the exterior of their jaw-dropping abode in City of Port Phillip, which she claims is ‘built the way Gianni and I like it!’
She shared images of the four bedroom property, which features a lap pool and a self-contained studio above a double garage to her blog.
The couple previously lived in a $2 million pad in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton.
‘Gianni is staying in law this is more my dream but he’s always there helping and supporting me’ Although Zana and her husband are a tight unit, this will be her project
‘Built the way Gianni and I like it!’ Zana treated fans to a full look at both the interior and the exterior of their jaw-dropping mansion in City of Port Phillip