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Terry Durack saves one of the year’s best openings until last for his final review

The Clam Bar team’s new Italian diner is a nostalgic party serving a fresh remix of Italian dishes. And it makes a fittingly fabulous venue for Terry Durack’s last review.

  • Terry Durack
Leonardo’s Pizza Palace sticks to the pizza script.

Leonardo’s Pizza Palace

Timber-panelled den for creative pizza and natural wine.

Mondo di Pasta’s first restaurant in Balaclava goes through 60 litres of bolognese sauce in an average week.

This new city pasta bar lets you customise everything – and bowls are less than $20

Opening soon in a busy CBD shopping centre, this new venue designed for speedy visits could be the Subway of Italian restaurants. Some people will hate that; for others, it’ll be game-changing.

  • Emma Breheny
Tortelli filled with asparagus, goat’s cheese and wild garlic sings of the fragility of seasons, food, life.
Good Food hat15/20

Eat it and weep: The pasta dish so good it brought our critic to tears

It’s been a decade of masterful pasta and good cheer from Tipo 00, the city Italian joint that’s become a Melbourne drawcard.

  • Besha Rodell
Pizza dough is fermented for 48 hours at I Carusi II.

I Carusi II

Compact, charismatic diner with a golden glow.

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The Hardware Club is located in the heritage-listed Hardware House building.

The Hardware Club

Join up for hearty flavours and understated cool.

Succulent meatballs at Eighteen Sixty in Nagambie.

Eighteen Sixty

Relaxed wine bar-cafe is an away-from-home treat.

Baby octopus with red wine, tomato, olives and soft polenta.

Caterina’s Cucina e Bar

Spectacular staff, classically delicious dishes and a hostess for the ages.

Cheese pizza with mortadella at Capitano

Capitano

Crowd-pleasing Italo-American.

Spaghetti all’assassina at Bar Rosella.

Bar Rosella

Unfussy trattoria with old-school charm.

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