This spot is truly extraordinary with a fabulous italian wine list, and the service is so personable that you feel like you are visiting an old friend.
Great for vegetarian and meat-lovers alike. If you are vegan, check ahead and they will look after you.
Yes, a tad costly but if you want home-cooked fresh food using only high-quality ingredients made-from-scratch, including the pasta.... (and um yes, you really can tell the difference).
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+4.5
“We like to keep it nice and cosy so we can have this,” Luca Vingiani says, gesturing to the space between him and I. I’m sitting in Nonna Gio, the little Italian restaurant that he runs with his wife, Rosangela (Rosie), on King Street in Newtown. The tiny space feels a lot like dining in their family home. The walls are decorated with hundreds of framed photos depicting their family’s actual history. There are homely lace curtains, and a SMEG fridge in the colours of the Italian flag, and, of course, the highly personalised service.“I’m not a trained chef, so whatever I cook here I learned to make at home,” Rosie explains as she introduces us to the short menu that rotates weekly. The home in question was in a small town called Castellamare Di Stabia, on the road to Sorrento in the south of Italy. Her tutors were her family’s matriarchs, traversing back through nearly one hundred years of home cooking, to Nonna Gio, her great grandmother, for whom the restaurant is named. While the seven-item menu is short, the salumi selection is surprisingly extensive, commanding its own page of the menu. Served individually ($13/serve) or in a trio ($24/person) the cold cuts are well-stored in a dedicated charcuterie fridge, and sliced by hand in the doorway by Luca. We try a...
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