Review Vitaly - Randwick

If you want to be transported to Italy in one mouthful of food this is the place to visit! The dishes are made with authentic flavours! Pasta dishes are so bold and beautifully presented. The woodfire pizza is like no other in the area. It tastes proper! Long before I did a shoot here, I have been a customer and have never been dissatisfied! 👌🏽

OMG! This is the best pizza I’ve had in all of Australia! I’m from an Italian background so I know my pizzas and Vitaly’s wood fired pizza is so perfect I can’t believe it. The dough is absolutely amazing and they are not stingy on the toppings like most other pizza places I’ve been to. It’s just the right consistency of everything. I live in Los Angeles but originally from Canberra and after stumbling across Vitaly last month Ive come back multiple times when I’ve been in Sydney because the pizza is so good. The margarita and tartuffo pizzas are an absolute must they are my go to. The gnocchi is also perfection! Also I’ve had gnocchi at many Italian restaurants and none come close to this. They are so soft and just melt in your mouth you don’t even have to try to chew and that’s when you know they are good!. The flavor is perfect in both the 4 cheese sauce one and the Napolitana. I’ve recommended this place to all my family and that means soMething because I’m picky at restaurants because I know how to cook good so if I’m saying something is perfect then it must be really really really good. Definitely recommend Vitaly to anyone!!!! The staff are also really nice and friendly!

Beautiful little traditional Italian restaurant. I had the spaghetti meatballs and a Pinot noir. Wholesome food, the meatballs had a bit of a kick to it which I really enjoyed. Super friendly staff made me feel very welcome. I can see why this place gets busy.

Really good food at reasonable prices. Staff were friendly and helpful. Patrons were spaced out well and the staff could be seen sanitising tables after diners had left. I had the seafood stew and it was delicious.

Delicious food that gives you a hug. We came back for the second time tonight and our warm and friendly host (the owner) remembered what we’d ordered the previous week, went above and beyond with personalising our order and generously brought us a Mother’s Day dessert. The food is so full of flavour, fabulous wood-fired pizzas and consistently mouthwatering. This is now our new local, can’t wait to come back again.

Love this place! Great service. I dine alone often, so they made me the kids pizza how I wanted it. House red (Rosso) was smooth, so I had a second for dessert. Rocket salad perfectly balanced with a light Balsamic vinaigrette. Jess was a great server. I love that the woodfire oven is out in the open. Best crust-their chili or garlic crusts are amazing if you just want something to complement their other main dishes. Just GO! Or I usually order online now, but I had forgotten how nice it was to dine in on a weeknight.

Classic family style Italian restaurant in Randwick. Go here when your hungry and order pasta as the portions are enormous. The food is nice and tasteful. The pizzas 🍕 are made in a wood fire oven and good quality. The staff is friendly and helpful and meals are served very quickly. If you like a classic Italian dish you will definitely like this restaurant.

The food is amazing. But the service... It was like I was sitting with people who don't recognise that their only job was to impress the customers. Maybe this generation has forgotten the importance of a job. I reckon absolutely get take away. 5 star for the chef's. None of the table could rate the food any less than 8/10.

Just sampled pizza here had the pepperoni yum yum �recommend most definitely. Lovely staff very welcoming, will defo be making a return visit �

The food was amazing and the service was spectacular! Definitely recommend to anyone looking for a great Italian food experience!

I was very impressed with this restaurant when I had dinner there recently. The service was outstanding as was the food and I love the fact that you can byo wine. I had the Vitaly Special pizza and it was excellent...the blend of hot salami, ricotta and honey a clever combination. The rocket salad was generous and the panna cotta with berries a perfect treat. The music was also a welcome addition to the night. As a local resident I am very happy with this restaurant and will return.

Amazing risotto! Wonderful service and very friendly staff - they were preparing to close when we stumbled in - very grateful! Would definitely recommend and will be visiting again soon! Many thanks!

Best Italian restaurant to dine in. Must visit place. Great hospitality and food.

Service great. Food Delicious . Nice to have an easy option for a restaurant that has a great menu.

Just had dinner here for our first night in Randwick on our girls trip and oh my goodness what an incredible meal! Penne prawn vodka, didn't know what to expect, not a huge fan of prawns or asparagus but had to give it a go. Amazing! Best meal, decent size, gorgeous little restaurant, lovely young girl who served us. Absolutely love!! Thankyou for an awesome meal and a lovely evening! ��

Oh my goodness!!!! 🤤🤤🤤🤤 Mama mia!! The margherita made with love, lil sprinkle herbs and basil! So beautiful 😍 So this is what they eat in italy!! Definatey our fav pizza place from now on!

Great restaurant with wonderful owner & staff, I wish them good luck ��

Another great night & meal at Vitaly tonight...we loved it, you must go...

Absolutely tasty and delicious. Had a great time there. Don’t forget to take the pizza Nutella as a dessert ... magic

Great food! Aki & Sheena really looked after us. Try the Nutella pockets!! Amazing.

Great family restaurant, friendly staff and tasty food.

Yummy food. Best ambience and awesome service. Must visit.

I absolutely loved the food, the ambience, the service received. Really friendly owner who recommended some really good food. Must visit it does have some really good Italian food.

Brilliant authentic Italian food served by wonderfully friendly staff. Generous portions and a casual friendly atmosphere make for a great evening out. Try the gnocchi, you won’t be disappointed.

I highly recommend this place for pizza lover ... special mention for firewood pizza .. great collection for beer and wine .... service is Friendly ...one of best Italian restaurant..

FOOD TYPE<br/>Italian<br/><br/>FOOD QUALITY<br/>Four of us dined on a wet and wintery Sat night in June. Being the Queen’s Birthday long weekend, they had a few drinks specials, so we availed ourselves of a couple of 500ml glasses of refreshing, Stella for a reasonable $8 each, while the ladies stuck to the non-alcoholic coke. For starters, we ordered two salads: the Rucula ($12) and the Italian ($15). The Rucula was a basic lettuce salad with slices of pear, while the Italian had the mixed lettuce, tomato, capsicum, red onion, olives, cucumber and bufala, which is a white mozzarella cheese. They were both generous, tasty and nutritious salads with just the right amount of dressing so as not to overwhelm the flavours. But unfortunately, that was the highlight of the night because it was downhill from there. For mains, I ordered a “Norma” pizza ($24), with eggplant, cherry tomatoes and ricotta salata cheese, my friend went for the “Four Cheese” pizza ($24) while the ladies choose the grilled chicken ($27) and the garlic prawns with vegetables ($25). My wife’s garlic prawns were dry and tasteless, while my pizza was so burned, as you can see from the pics, as to make it almost inedible. Of course, I should have sent it back straight away but, having waited almost an hour for it, I ploughed through. My friends pizza was also burned at the outer, but not as badly as mine. The grilled chicken was the best dish of the night. The meat was tender and succulent and nicely complemented by a serve of seasonal vegetables.<br/><br/>ATMOSPHERE<br/>The place was about half full at its peak at about 8pm; so the atmosphere was reasonably lively, and it wasn’t a complete flop of a night. Dimmi are offering a 30% discount on food, so I suspect that this is what’s pulling in the crowds. (because it ain’t anything else). The decor is warm and quite homely with timber floors, low, mood lighting and interesting pics of Italy on the wall. The pizza ovens are at the far end and in the middle, is a colourful and exotic bar display. This location has seen many Italian restaurants come and go over the past couple of years. When we first started coming here about a decade ago, it was the dreary “Old Castille”, it then became “Made in Naples”, who offered $20 “Pizza Nights” i.e. all you can eat pizza for $20, but they obviously couldn’t do the maths because that soon bankrupted them. Then followed “IBriganti” which also didn’t last long, but at least they spent some serious money upgrading and modernising the place, which is how it still is today. Then we had “Benvenuti” which survived less than 12 months. Now we have “Vitaly”, which, if my instincts are correct will probably also not last long unless they lift their game. <br/><br/>SERVICE<br/>Staff were pleasant and friendly, but woefully inefficient. I had booked ahead, using the online booking facility on Vitaly’s own website. I must have omitted to include the time that we wanted to dine, because within a hour or so of making the booking, a lady phoned me to confirm the booking and ask what time we wanted the table reserved for. I figured that that that phone call would have been confirmation enough of our booking, even though I never received the promised email. But I was wrong, because when we arrived at the appointed time of 7pm, they had no record of the booking. Annoying. But we needn’t have fretted about it, because there were plenty of available tables and the maire d’, a pretty, smiling young lady, offered us a nice large table in the middle. The wait staff seem untrained and were not really properly attired. They also lacked even basic knowledge of the dishes. We had two servers: both young lads, who were very courteous and polite, but too casually dressed: one in shorts, the other in jeans and T shirt. Not the kind of attire to engender confidence. Our drinks order came out fairly quickly, but then followed a tedious 20 minute wait for the salads. Once the salads were finished, another 20 minute wait before the ladies’ dishes came out. They had just about finished theirs, when finally, about 15 minutes later, the pizzas (one at a time) finally arrived. Clearly the pizza chef left them in the oven too long; so we lost out both in terms of the quality and the waiting time. <br/><br/>COMFORT<br/>We sat at a table for six, which afforded us ample room to fit everything. The upholstered chairs are firm and comfy and one positive about dining here in winter is that it’s heated, to just the right temp, making it quite warm and cozy, even on a chilly, winter night. That’s rare for a Syd restaurant, the vast majority of which simply don’t cater for winter dining.<br/><br/>MENU<br/>The plastic menu is well set out and easy to read, even in the dim lighting.<br/><br/>TOILETS<br/>The toilets are at the back, past the pizza ovens. They have a strange configuration, with no separate male and female ones, just a long bank of basins and four unisex cubicles, of which, only three were working. I always find this arrangement a bit disconcerting. These toilets are a holdover from the previous owners, who installed them, but now, they look a bit tired and neglected even though they can’t be more than three or four years old. Having one out of service on what is probably the busiest night of the week (Sat) seems a tad neglectful. There was plenty of soap dispensers, but the 1980s hand dryer is well past its use by date and should be replaced with something more modern, or how about just hand towels?<br/><br/>ACOUSTICS<br/>The wooden floors, wooden furniture and low ceilings offer virtually no sound insulation when it gets busy, and even though, on the night we dined, it wasn’t particularly full, near to us, was a table of rather boisterous and rowdy diners and that just made it too loud to be pleasant once they got into their stride after a few rounds of drinks.<br/><br/>COST<br/>We used our Ent Book voucher for a 25% discount up to a max of $30. That kept our bill down to $120, for two beers, two cokes, two salads and four mains. <br/><br/>BOOKING<br/>Only necessary if you take advantage of Dimmi’s 30% discount deal. If they can only half fill the place on a Sat night, can’t see it being to hard to get a table any night of the week without a booking.<br/><br/>PARKING<br/>We found easy parking outside on Avoca Street, where there are no evening restrictions.<br/><br/>SUMMARY<br/>On the whole, a disappointing evening. Service was slow, our booking had not been recorded and the pizzas were burned.

Delicious pasta and must have Woodfire Pizza.<br/>Great range of Wine and Beer options.<br/>Friendly service.<br/><br/>Incentive is the Pannacotta, which is too good.<br/><br/>I highly recommend this place