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Studio Amaro

La dolce vita hits a party stride.

Campanelle with milk-braised pork.
1 / 9Campanelle with milk-braised pork.Supplied
Inside the busy Windsor restaurant.
2 / 9Inside the busy Windsor restaurant.Julia Sansone
Fried mozzarella sandwich.
3 / 9Fried mozzarella sandwich.Julia Sansone.
Antipasti.
4 / 9Antipasti.Supplied
Tuna carpaccio with tomato, olive crumb and capers.
5 / 9Tuna carpaccio with tomato, olive crumb and capers.Bonnie Savage
Oyster blade steak with cheesy cacio e pepe butter.
6 / 9Oyster blade steak with cheesy cacio e pepe butter.Bonnie Savage
Light bathes the corner site by day.
7 / 9Light bathes the corner site by day.Bonnie Savage
Mortadella and salami focaccia on the lunch menu.
8 / 9Mortadella and salami focaccia on the lunch menu.Bonnie Savage
Grilled pork and fennel sausage .
9 / 9Grilled pork and fennel sausage .Bonnie Savage

14.5/20

Italian$$

If Studio 54 and an old-school trattoria fell in love and had a baby, this would be the result. Part bar, part restaurant, all fun, Studio Amaro is where Chapel Street gets its glam on.

A dressed-to-impress crowd crams into corduroy-upholstered booths in a room enveloped by golden mood lighting. Triangles of sourdough focaccia are the perfect wingman for tuna carpaccio. The ruby-hued fish, dressed only with fried capers and a glug of fruity olive oil, is the embodiment of Italian simplicity.

Frilly campanelle buddy up to a sophisticated ragu of milk-braised pork with a spicy hint of ’nduja. There’s no resisting the lure of the textbook creme caramel, or that of the veneer-walled basement bar where DJ sets encourage you to have just one more Nero Spritz – made with amaro, naturally.

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