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A 1950s Bourke Street institution where an unwritten wall-board menu and legendary espresso rule.
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A hatted Little Bourke Street pasta bar built around a marble bar and open kitchen.
Grossi Florentino: Melbourne's grand Italian fine-dining institution, decades of hatted cuisine and old-school hospitality.
Basement Collins Street trattoria loved for two decades for its near-legendary seafood linguine and cosy, old-school charm.
Lygon Street trattoria drawing regulars back for handmade wagyu ravioli and squid ink linguine.
Ferrari-themed Lygon Street trattoria where staff sing happy birthday over wood-fired pizza.
West Melbourne Italian with live jazz, handmade pasta and a sticky date pudding reviewers call the best they've had.
Pascoe Vale's nationally ranked wood-fired pizzeria, run with Lorenzo's hands-on hospitality.
Hawthorn's Venetian-style eatery, where standout pasta meets a free limoncello send-off.
St Kilda's 20-year Italian institution — wood-fired pizza, full vegan menu, buzzy Acland St energy.
Berwick's benchmark Italian fine diner - Wagyu, house pasta, a red-door cocktail room.
Intimate Carlton North wine bar serving produce-forward small plates and low-intervention wine.
A tiny Toorak trattoria where owner Gabriele treats every table like family and the handmade pasta does the rest.
Malvern's family-run Italian diner turning classics into wagyu, seaweed pasta, espresso martinis.
Ascot Vale trattoria where Christian and Danilo's handmade pasta earns near-perfect reviews.
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