The centerpiece is a nine-room 1750's French town house, complete with ormolu-encrusted bureaus, tiny toast caddies in the dining room, and postage-stamp-sized books that are printed in French.
Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Updated at 3.18pm GMT 12.25pm GMT Austrian politicians Werner Faymann, right, and Michael Spindelegger share a tiny toast in front of the Chancellery in Vienna after being sworn in.
Their latest collaboration took place last night on the set of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and saw them remixing a monologue from the host on a new General Mills cereal, Tiny Toast.
Garnished with a lecture about how lazy you are and a really cute tiny avocado toast.
You never know what might show up, and that is half the pleasure: a barely settled omelet, perhaps, still seething; tiny spiky toasted anchovies; wrinkled bands of tofu skin lashed with sesame oil; and kimchi, of course, a theme in seemingly endless variations.
Some of the other possibilities on the tapas list were mere tidbits: tomato bruschetta translated to two tiny ovals of toast with a tasty tomato topping.
Give me a tiny corner of toast smeared with Gentleman's Relish or Marmite, and I will not feel peckish for, oh, at least an hour.
Other wood-fired dishes — pungent cauliflower with hazelnut romesco sauce, bone marrow spread on fettunta toast, tiny whole carrots set on walnut cream and showered with pecorino — had me remembering things I had eaten in Rome, or Cremona, or Sicily.
The food is simple: small snacks (known as ciccheti) such as salt cod on polenta, anchovies on toast, tiny soft sandwiches called francobolli (postage stamps) and, in winter, pig's trotter sausage in broth.
Twenty minutes after my call, a bellman wheeled in a cloth-covered table laden with scrambled eggs, sausage, wheat toast, tiny croissants, coffee, sliced melon, kiwi, huckleberries and figs.
Inside a glass box, inside a huge cage, inside a Buenos Aires shopping mall, Javier Mascherano carefully folds a slice of cheese and tops a tiny piece of toast with it.
