Criniti’s Italian restaurants opening at Parramatta, Manly, Bondi, Brighton-le-Sands
After announcing its comeback in Parramatta, a popular Italian restaurant chain is giving more of Sydney and the nation a pizza its style with new locations revealed.
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Criniti’s Italian restaurant is staging a major comeback across Australia with restaurants opening at Manly, Brighton-le-Sands and Bondi, while there will also be branches in Perth and Canberra planned for 2023.
It comes in the same week as it confirmed it would open at Church St, Parramatta, in the former El-Phoenician restaurant, which announced it would shut permanently 24 years after it first brought fine and alfresco dining to the dining strip.
New owners Brunelli Group and Premix King are behind the chain’s comeback after it went into administration with debts of more than $16.5 million.
Criniti’s has gone full circle at Parramatta, where Frank Criniti and his now ex-wife Rima opened the first restaurant on Church St in 2003.
The company went into administration in November 2019 but a last-minute sale of the business’ assets to South Australian-based Brunelli Group saved six of its 13 restaurants in 2020.
The return will also please Criniti’s fans on the northern beaches after the West Esplanade restaurant shut in 2019. Rockpool Dining Group opened Fratelli Fresh in its place.
In January, Brunelli signed a lease to operate at the former El-Phoencian restaurant at 328 Church St where a major renovation to house a woodfire pizza oven and trestle tables is being undertaken.
In a statement, a Criniti’s spokesman said the new restaurants would pay “homage to southern Italian masterpieces while spicing things up with a modern Australian twist”.
“Criniti’s stays true to its tradition of leaving everyone full and satisfied at the table, whether it’s gourmet salads or woodfire pizzas that patrons are after,’’ a spokesman said.
The Perth restaurant will open at Carrington while residents of the nation’s capital can head to Canberra Central.
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