Italian
10 of Melbourne’s best Italian restaurants (and how to dine for less at each)
Find $16 margherita pizza, weekend lunch menus with endless focaccia and drinks, and a date-night deal with a price that’ll have you feeling loved up.
- Good Food Guide reviewers
The Good Food Guide to 10 of Sydney’s best hatted Italian restaurants
The Harbour City’s top scoring spots for pasta, pizza and all things pomodoro from the Good Food Guide 2025.
- Callan Boys and Good Food Guide Reviewers
Grossi jumps Kew following split with high-profile hospitality group
Puttanesca at the Clifton Hotel is in the hands of a new operator as Public Hospitality’s financial unravelling continues.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- Braybrook
Gather your friends and head to this big breezy tin-roofed shed in an industrial estate
This summer, skip the tents and pitch a meal at Campground Kitchen to your friends instead.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- Thornbury
There are plenty of new rooftop bars in Melbourne, but there’s still nothing like Gigi
The suburban view is not spectacular, exactly – but there’s something special about golden hours spent on this summer-only sundeck.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- Elsternwick
This tiny gelato shop in the ’burbs proves Melbourne’s lickability rating is rising
Over the years, the big gelati brands have opened more branches and there are many cool new players, but Luna Blu has become more special for staying small.
- Dani Valent
From $15 buffets to bottomless drinks: The skint diner’s guide to January’s best deals
From an outrageous-value buffet, to free bottles of wine at a trailblazing hatted restaurant, these are the summer deals your friends will love you for finding.
- Tomas Telegramma
- Review
- Five Dock
Raineri’s Continental Deli
An Inner West institution for Italian deli sandwiches.
- Erina Starkey
- Review
- Sydney
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
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