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Ragazzi

Pasta, wine and la dolce vita.

Ragazzi’s cosy dining room.
1 / 8Ragazzi’s cosy dining room.supplied
Rotolo with Jack’s creek beef shin.
2 / 8Rotolo with Jack’s creek beef shin.Supplied.
Sourdough toast with butter and a Cantabrian anchovy.
3 / 8Sourdough toast with butter and a Cantabrian anchovy.Supplied
Amaro with orange.
4 / 8Amaro with orange.Louise Kennerley
Snapper crudo with avruga, buttermilk and sesame crackers.
5 / 8Snapper crudo with avruga, buttermilk and sesame crackers.Jennifer Soo
Pork cotoletta.
6 / 8Pork cotoletta.Edwina Pickles
Mafaldine with blue mackerel and fermented chilli.
7 / 8Mafaldine with blue mackerel and fermented chilli.Edwina Pickles
Cavatelli, pork and fennel sausage and pipis.
8 / 8Cavatelli, pork and fennel sausage and pipis.Edwina Pickles

14.5/20

Italian$$

Push aside the heavy door curtains (so thrillingly European!) and you are enveloped in the golden warmth of a working wine and pasta bar. Boxes pile up by the curved bar and bottles line walls and windows. It’s easy to feel transported to the backstreets of Rome as you explore the short menu, featuring crunchy croquettes oozing with mozzarella and ’nduja, or a pouch of creamy burrata ringed with confit peppers.

Everything on the pasta-centric carte is to share, from the signature spaghetti cacio e pepe to little shells of conchiglie, richly sauced with clumps of soft sausage mingling with just-cooked pipis and a flutter of garlic.

The drinks list is entertaining, as it is at all venues in the growing Love Tilly Group family – they’ll even up-sell you a dash of Abruzzese cherry liqueur over your pistachio gelato. Do it.

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