New upmarket pizza joint takes up residence at Wolloomooloo Wharf
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Bottle of wine and a pizza?
Sure, that’ll be $500.
Well, it will be at Sydney’s hottest new soon-to-open swank joint on Woolloomooloo Wharf where a $250 pizza - washed down with a bottle of house Ruinart r de Ruinart champagne - will soon become the must-have lunch combo for the Sydney it-crowd.
But not just any pizza; a stracciatella-cheese topped wood-fired pizza with Beluga and salmon caviar and shaved quail egg.
It’s the brainchild of The Amalfi Way owner and chef Luigi Esposito who is moving up to the big leagues having already amassed something of a mini-empire with his bustling Via Napoli and Pizza Britta outposts around the city.
The move to the coveted Woolloomooloo Wharf, however, is a new kind of flex.
“This was always one of my goals when I arrived here … my big dream,” says Esposito, a Naples native and member of the Naples-based Associazione Pizzaiuoli Napoletani – aka world’s elite pizza makers.
“I have always wanted to have a place overlooking the water and luckily this spot became available.
“Obviously things didn’t go well with the past owners but it gave me the opportunity to come aboard and accept a new challenge. And I’m really excited.”
Along with his destined-to-be-a-signature caviar pizza, Esposito is prepping a menu loaded with dishes that mirror served de rigeur at the beachside trattorias that dot the Amalfi Coast – a region which serves as his culinary inspiration.
Among them; An all-raw seafood platter piled with lobster, scampi, fish, oysters, scallops, mussels and prawns as well a pasta dish with lobster, pulled live from tank, stirred through fettuccine.
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On the drinks menu; Dom Perignon by the glass and Ruinart R de Ruinart champagne are among the 250 bottles on offer.
With interiors and furnishings splashed in the Amalfi‘s signature lemon yellow, Esposito’s new digs is a deliberate departure from the bold red-and-black of its predecessors – famed for the flash Ducati bikes and red Lamborghini which served as decor.
Criniti’s famously began collapsing in 2014 and finally shuttered last November.
Not surprisingly, Esposito is keen to create a serious point of difference between The Amalfi Way and the old tenants.
“No bikes, no sports cars for us,” he laughs.
“I invest my money in the food. Not the decor.”
Originally published as New upmarket pizza joint takes up residence at Wolloomooloo Wharf