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Melbourne-meets-Milan at Sincero in Malvern.
14.5/20

Let’s give this sophisticated Italian restaurant a quiet clap for its lovely acoustics

Sincero is a charming high-street restaurant with high-concept dishes from the team behind Buono in Melbourne’s bayside.

  • Dani Valent
Good speck and a bright, piquant pineapple and habanero salsa.
14.5/20

High on garlic, ‘green goddess’ and gelato at Perth pizza paradise

Welcome to the kitchen of Paul Bentley, a pizzaiolo with a disruptive streak making pizza unharmed by either a 20-minute car ride or a sleepover in your fridge.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Alexandra and Nicola Coccia in their hatted restaurant Osteria il Coccia in Ettalong Beach .

Where there’s smoke there’s ire: Central Coast’s highest-rated restaurant forced to close

Italian wood-fire restaurant Osteria il Coccia in Ettalong will close after failing to rectify smoke complaints.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Go-to dish: Grilled beef tongue, jicama and salted chilli.
Good Food hat15/20

The pasta might have caught your attention, but there are other delights at Attenzione!

The wine bar-restaurant is big on personality and flavour, plus great cocktails, mystery wine and head-scratching dish names.

  • Callan Boys
Pizza Diavola with spicy salami, onion and roasted capsicum.

Everyone can get a pizza the action at this allergy-friendly pizzeria

Plus: Don’t miss nonna’s-gnocchi-meets-potato-gems at warm and welcoming neighbourhood gem Shop 225.

  • Dani Valent
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Attenzione! in Redfern.

Attenzione! There’s a hot new Italish-ish restaurant and wine bar to try in Redfern

Forget about the burrata - the Fabbrica alumni are going off script with an experimental menu.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Pepperoni.
15/20

Freo’s newly hatted restaurant has the kind of pizza you attack with a team

Flour, sugo and cheese, oh my! But there’s more than that to this raw pared-back dining room in the resurgent west end of our port city.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Tortellini in brodo.
14.5/20

The new Italian restaurant that Mount Eliza locals can’t stop talking about – with good reason

Dani Valent reviews Bau Bau, where regional Italian classics are reworked into elevated restaurant dishes, with impressive results.

  • Dani Valent
Luca Sbardella and Jamie Valmorbida inside historic King & Godfree.

Legendary Lygon Street deli, restaurant and cafe set for extended closure – again

Despite undergoing extensive renovations in 2018, the Lygon Street landmark is about to be shuttered for another overhaul.

  • Dani Valent
Pork cutlet, romesco and caramelised onion.
Good Food hat15.5/20

Can’t get into Firedoor? Drive to this more affordable fire-driven Central Coast gem

Osteria il Coccia exclusively uses fire and coals, but unlike Firedoor, it happily accepts walk-ins and a $49 pork cutlet is big enough to share.

  • Callan Boys

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