30 editor picks across Australia.
30 italian restaurants worth the trip across Australia, editor-ranked. All cuisines in Australia.
Osteria Coogee is an Italian restaurant at 31 Alfreda Street, Coogee, with a seasonal menu, fresh pasta and focaccia made in-house and imported wines.
OrderThe fire-grilled polpo with sun-dried tomato and capers, or the creamy porcini and truffle gnocchi.
TipClosed Mondays; gluten free, vegetarian and vegan food are available upon request at all times in the restaurant.
Biànca brings the spirit of a classic trattoria to Ada Lane, with simple, classic Italian dishes, pastas and breads made in house and a long antipasti menu.
OrderPastas made in house, Wood-fired breads, Antipasti
Tipo 00 on Little Bourke Street serves house-rolled pasta in a tight CBD room. The squid-ink tagliolini and wagyu mafaldine have been selling out for years.
OrderTagliolini al nero with squid and bottarga
Roma on Collins Street is Melbourne's most disciplined Roman trattoria: cacio e pepe tableside, proper tonnarelli and a small menu that refuses to overstep.
OrderTonnarelli cacio e pepe, tableside
Rita's in Abbotsford makes semolina-crusted pizzas with wood-fired char most pizza rooms approximate: small room, short menu, real consistency.
OrderSemolina-crusted pizza with anchovy and olive
Biànca is an Italian restaurant on Ada Lane at 46 James Street in Fortitude Valley.
Rita's in Abbotsford makes what many locals rate as the city's best pizza: semolina-crusted bases with charred edges from wood and discipline, not theatre.
OrderSemolina-crusted margherita or the anchovy and olive
Tipo 00 on Little Bourke Street is Melbourne's pasta room of record: squid-ink tagliolini daily, short seasonal menu and a room that stays full every service.
OrderTagliolini al nero di seppia with squid
Fratelli Paradiso is an Italian restaurant at 12-16 Challis Avenue, Potts Point, open daily from midday until late. Email for reservations over 8 people.
10 William Street is an Italian restaurant at 10 William Street in Paddington.
Rosmarino, in the Stewart & Hemmant Building in Fortitude Valley, pairs house-made pasta and Sardinian ravioli with over 350 international and Italian wines.
OrderHouse-made pasta, Sardinian ravioli
Roma on Collins Street is Melbourne's Roman trattoria, cacio e pepe tableside. Located in Cbd. Order the cacio e pepe made tableside with tonnarelli pasta.
OrderCacio e pepe made tableside with tonnarelli pasta
Pellegrino 2000 is a neighbourhood trattoria in Surry Hills at 80 Campbell Street, serving from 5pm until late; reservations on 02 8593 0114.
OTTO is a modern Italian restaurant on the South Bank riverfront, with Head Chef Richard Ptacnik's seasonal, produce-driven menu and Italian varietals.
OrderCicchetti
OTTO cooks produce-driven modern Italian cuisine on the South Bank riverfront; its bar is open Wednesday to Sunday from 12pm for snacks and cicchetti.
Grossi Florentino holds two Good Food Guide hats. The upstairs room is the classical Italian benchmark; the Cellar Bar serves the same food more casually.
OrderHand-rolled pasta of the day from the cellar bar menu
Cibaria Manly is an Italian restaurant in the Elysium Hotel on Belgrave Street, open daily for lunch and dinner, with a rooftop Terrazza over Manly beach.
OrderA bowl of silky pasta with vino.
TipMost of the menu is gluten-free or can be modified: tell staff on the day, or put it in your booking notes.
a'Mare is an Italian restaurant at Crown Sydney, Level 1, 1 Barangaroo Avenue, open daily from 12:00 to 14:30 and again from 17:00 for dinner.
Icebergs Dining Room and Bar is hatted Italian fine dining at 1 Notts Avenue on Bondi Beach, with Pacific Ocean views, and has been open since 2002.
Rosmarino is a family-owned Italian restaurant in Fortitude Valley, opened in 2021 by Andrea and Lauren, with handmade pasta and more than 350 wines.
OrderHandmade pasta, Sardinian ravioli
Bar Alto serves modern Italian at the Brisbane Powerhouse in New Farm, a heritage-listed former power station that keeps its preserved graffiti walls.
Ciao Papi is an Italian restaurant and bar at the New Farm end of Howard Smith Wharves, also reached by lift from Bowen Terrace near Wilson Outlook Reserve.
Vineria Luisa is an Italian vineria and gintoneria at 135 Enmore Road, Enmore, with a wine list of small boutique producers and over fifty specialty gins.
TipReservations are taken at the downstairs bar for groups of 4 or less; a 10% surcharge applies on Saturdays and Sundays.
Osteria Mucca is an Italian restaurant at 212 Australia Street, Newtown, serving handmade pasta and in-house butchery in a former butcher shop.
OrderHandmade pasta, Charcuterie
TipBook a table or simply walk in. Dinner runs Wednesday to Sunday from 5:30pm, with lunch on Saturday and Sunday from 12pm.
Bar Alto is a modern Italian restaurant inside the Brisbane Powerhouse, the arts venue on the river beside New Farm Park, and has cooked Italian since 2006.
Tartufo is a classic Italian restaurant in the Emporium precinct on Ann Street, run by head chef and owner Tony Percuoco, who began in a restaurant in Naples.
OrderPizza in a style found in Naples, Neapolitan specialities
Ciao Papi is a waterfront Italian restaurant on the Rivershed deck at the New Farm end of Howard Smith Wharves, open Monday to Sunday from 12pm until late.
Tartufo cooks Neapolitan specialities and pizza in a style found in Naples at 1000 Ann Street in the Emporium precinct, open six days a week.
OrderPizza in a style found in Naples, Neapolitan specialities
Vin-Cenzo's is an Italian restaurant at 174 Liverpool Street in Darlinghurst, open every day of the week.
Grossi Cellar Bar serves the same kitchen as upstairs at half the price: fresh pasta, cured meats and Italian classics at a curved marble bar in the CBD.
OrderFresh pasta of the day with a glass of Barolo
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