An eagle-eyed buyer of an unique Sydney eatery seems to have noticed its “doppelganger” midway around the globe.
Recognized amongst rich-listers for its basic Italian fare, Totti’s in Sydney has grown to turn into an establishment in Australia’s culinary scene.
The suspiciously comparable restaurant was noticed by Miss Double Bay — a well-liked Australian Instagram account — who observed the similarities between the 2 venues was “uncanny”.
“It has come to my consideration that now we have a doppelganger in our midst – Totti (with no ’s), an Italian restaurant situated in Paris,” she shared on-line.
“The like4like is uncanny … @merivale get the attorneys on standby.”
Totti’s, which boasts venues in Sydney’s CBD, Bondi, Rozelle and Lorne, is a part of the multimillion-dollar Merivale group based by the late John Hemmes and his spouse Merivale.
Among the Instagram’s 60,000 followers reacted to the surprising revelation within the remark part.
“I don’t see the well-known bread??,” one particular person mentioned. “Totti you may copy totties however you’ll NEVER work out the crabby patty components to make the bread puff up the way in which it does.”
“How may they … HOW COULD THEY!!!!,” a second mentioned.
“Juzzy Hemmes about to lawyer up,” one other particular person wrote in reference to the Merivale founder’s son and present proprietor Justin Hemmes.
One other jokingly referred to it because the “Want model” of Totti’s.
However not everybody agreed this was a case of a copycat, with one commenter noting Totti was a standard Italian surname shared with former footballer Francesco Totti.
The Parisian doppelganger just lately rebranded their social media, so there are solely posts way back to Might 2023, making it laborious to discern which of the 2 venues got here first.
Patrons have posted suggestions to Google Critiques courting again to November 2022.
Nonetheless, when checking the eating places’ tagged pictures, the grid is stuffed with posts tagged on the Merrivale teams numerous Australian places with guests mistakenly tagging the Paris venue, together with one from radio host Jackie O’.
Totti’s Bondi – the primary location of the now iconic franchise – was opened in March 2019.
Merivale group has been approached for remark.