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The fervour surrounding Taylor Swift’s 2024 visit to Pellegrino is still reverberating. It wasn’t exactly easy to get in before, but nowadays, if you don’t plan ahead, you’re likely to be left scrambling for an early booking or a seat in the cellar (good for groups, but away from the action).

It’s easy to see why it’s so popular. Pellegrino is sexy, stylish and a damn fun place to smash yuzu-spiked sgroppinos and chubby rigatoni dressed in cheesy, yolky carbonara.

The team (also behind CBD grill Clam Bar) clearly have the magic touch: the room is all energy, the street-side bar-seats rock, and the menu plays Italy’s greatest hits with swagger.

We hope Swift ordered the charcoal-grilled octopus with a jumble of rosemary-infused potatoes, and the banana crema caramel with a towering puff of Chantilly cream – she would have left knowing, like us, that Sydney has an exciting, playful dining scene, up there with the best of them.