Tipo 00

Come. This place deserves the rave reviews. From the gorgeous bread, fantastic entrees and scrumptious pasta, I can’t fault anything. Except it’s really heard to get a spot now !!!

Fantastic Italian restaurant. Pasta is freshly made in house. Service was great. They even gave us a free appetizer because we waited an hour and a half. This is a very popular spot, I suggest you make a reservation or put your name down and grab a glass of wine around the corner at Kirk’s wine bar. I recommend the gnocchi!

I was out fairly late looking for something to eat and found this place on Unilocal.Wow. It was so good. Very accommodating from the moment i arrived. I started with the zucchini flowers and then had the gnocchi which I think may be the best I have ever head in my life. Some delicious grilled apricots for desert and a glass of wine to go with each course. Reasonably priced as well for food of such great quality. Will definitely come back again when in Melbourne

Loved the open kitchen and full length windows walking in. Ordered the stunning duck gnocchi. Probably the best pasta dish I’ve ever had, and certainly the best I’ve had in Melbourne, which is saying a lot. Well deserved restaurant of the year award win for 2015!

This is once again one of the best italian restaurants in Melbourne. Great bustling noise makes you feel like you are in italy.
Pasta dishes are second to none especially saffron pasta.
The set course menu is fantastic value and you get to try the chefs sampling of many dishes.
Worth the wait if you didnt book as you can have a drink next door whilst you wait.
Definately top 2 in melbourne for pasta.

Don’t know why I hadn’t reviewed it earlier! Came here for a celebratory meal way back in Feb and did the chef’s choice menu, nothing short of AMAZING. We started with some delicious bread and ricotta, arancini balls, the spectacular burrata (the best burrata I’ve ever had), the squid ink pasta AND the gnocci, the radicchio side salad, and the best interpretation of a tiramisu (frankly the only version I can stomach, I hate every single tiramisu I’ve ever had)
Delicious food, attentive service and refreshing décor. LOVE IT
(still craving that squid ink pasta, really ought to head back soon!)

There was a 30 minute wait for a table but they offered to call us when it was ready and we went to the bar next door for a drink. The service was IMPECCABLE. The kind of service that you didn’t realise you were missing everywhere else until you experience it somewhere. We ordered the tortellloni and the rigatoni. The tortelloni was stuffed with asparagus and in a cream sauce that had my wanting to wipe my finger on the plate. We cancelled one of the glasses of wine we’d ordered to come out with the food and they still gave us a splash so we could have a taste. Simply divine. Would have loved to linger and enjoy it more but my eyes were hanging out of my head from a huge day of travel and exploring Melbourne.

It’s a fairly unassuming little spot, but hugely popular. It’s interior is rustic and welcoming, dimly lit and warm. We were told there would be a half-​hour wait, but that there’s a lovely wine bar up the road, they’ll call us when we can eat. Perfect. The wait was almost exact, with one glass just finished as my phone rang.
We were tempted to go for the chef’s menu, but settled on two entrees and two mains to share instead, and the sommelier and wait staff then helped us pick two wines available in the half bottle that would go with our options. I love half-​bottle options, I think more Perth venues should do this! More flavours, same price! The wine list was mainly Italian, not a lot I was familiar with, so the staff knowing the wine inside out was a huge help. Our dishes were the entrée special of the day — wild mushrooms, with smoked wagyu and housemade rosemary crisps and the grilled tongue. The tongue is thinly sliced and concertina’d onto a skewer before being grilled, so it’s both aesthetically interesting and has lots of crispy exterior bits as you bite into it. For mains we had clam and smoked tomato spaghetti — my husband is currently obsessed with smoking things, so this was one of the dishes that made us lean away from the set menu. The little smoked cherry tomatoes were fabulous — but there weren’t enough of them. I think the dish totalled 10 clams and only 4 tomatoes. The flavours combined so well, but needed more of the sweet smoky bursts of flavour. The stinging nettle and saltbush risotto was vibrantly green in colour and flavour. It was decidedly different, and one of the best risottos I’ve eaten
Given how much we’d enjoyed the food thus far, skipping dessert was simply not an option, which set a decadent precedent for the remainder of our Melbourne Food Odyssey. Lance ordered the torta del giorno, which was a light and airy white chocolate mousse dish which I remember as being a little lacking in textural variation. My dessert is their signature — the Tipomisu — or their take on the classic tiramisu. It was Oh. My. Gosh. Fabulous. A dense chocolate brownie round filled with sweetened rum mascarpone, topped with chocolate and then smothered in the richest coffee caramel sauce you could imagine. I still have dreams about that sauce. Such an intense coffee flavour, tempered by the caramel, without sweetening it too much and a hint of salt to further round out the coffee bitterness.

A fantastic little spot with charm and exceptional house-​made pasta. Tried the Wagyu Bolognese, went back and had it again 2 days later! Perfection & Consistency. Can always rate a place by the quality of wine on pour and there was not a disappointment here either, quite the opposite in fact. Bookings are recommended as it fills up quickly on weekends. Arrived on a Saturday early and was leaving as they were turing people away. They are open all day so a mid week late lunch proved effortless and immensely satisfying. The place is pasta done perfect. Favourite indeed.