We have lived in Ausyralia for the past 8 years. It took us a little while to find an Italian Restuaraunt with over the top Italian Food. La Vela is that Italian Restuaraunt for us. We have eaten many meals here through the years.
Anytime we have guests from overseas, we bring them here for a meal. Important events also get celebrated here. The food is always excellent. The staff is always polite. And, the price for everything is reasonable.
I will miss it when we move to South Korea next year.
I particularly enjoy their Chickon Scaloppini. However, I always ask them to put it over pasta and take the vegetables off of the plate. They always ablige with a smile and now recognize me when I go in. �
We go there often, beautiful food, ambience & staff. Not expensive either - I am not a steak eater, but last night had eye fillet, as did my partner - melt in the mouth
Ordered take away from here, was bloody amazing. The gnocchi portofino had nice thick creamy sauce and the mussels were delicious! Garlic bread was also great. Yum, will definitely return.
I bloody love La Vela - they are my go to on Uber Eats - boring I always get the same creamy chicken fettuccini alfredo and well done garlic bread.
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We had lunch here. It was absolutely delicious. We enjoyed the atmosphere of the restaurant and the staff were lovely. They even brought special colouring sheets & pencils to keep the little children on the next table occupied. Will definitely come back again soon.
Excellent. Delicious food, great staff. Really enjoyed the meal this evening. I had the gnocchi Portofino with salad. My husband had the pepper scallopini. Our parents had chicken scallopini masala and chicken Lugano. All meals were excellent. Really nice coffee too.
So lucky to have La Vela as my local Italian restaurant. Been coming here for years. Best pasta and gnocchi. Complimentary arancini during dining in is always a win. Tiramisu is also really good
Lovely restaurant with fantastic staff . I had the tortellini and it was great, a little oily but nice. My wife had the seafood marinara and came hot and delicious . We didn't wait long for the food and the table service was great. Will be back 😃
Awesome friendly service and delicious food, couldn't fault anything! Had the gnocchi chorizo and the fettuccini romano. Complimentary arancini balls were a yummy start. Definitely going back.
Excellent food. Delicious every time. Professional staff and great service. Really nice place to dine with small or large group. This place has always been good.
Great Local independant Italian!!!
I have only been here once and really enjoyed the food and service - its italian with a twist for example their is egg in the Lasange (but its awesome) We were offered free aranchini balls on arrival which was a nice touch and they were tasty!!! Its a BYO so you can have a nice inexpensive night out while supporting your local community.
One odd thing I forgot to mention is the frozen Veges you get with the fish - rather odd I would rather have salad or nothing.
We had La Vela on Saturday night (Take out) This has been a local of ours for years and a often go to. I always say this place serves excellent "old school" Italian. I ordered potato gnocchi with prawns in a tomato cream sauce, as a friend of mine had highly recommended it. It was amazing, the gnocchi it self was so soft with the sauce having great flavour. There was a good ratio of prawns to gnocchi (a big serving for $19) my husband ordered the lasagna which he liked, not much cheese sauce (again a more traditional lasagna dish. We also ordered the mini arrancni balls which were delightful, coated in parmesan cheese.. so yeah it was a bit of a carb feast, so I guess diet starts today!
Great food with a cozy atmosphere. Only thing was service was a little slow due to them being very busy. Apart from that happy customer!
I have ordered from this restaurant 5x times now and it is very consistent and good , the seasonal vegetables are my favourite side, although I order through a delivery app, the potato’s are crispy and amazing!
I have only tried their pastas so far, but they are well priced and worth it.
Thank you for being so consistent it is very appreciated
This is such a cozy little place and the service was amazing (kudos to the wait staff). The food was a little average though (all our pasta dishes (3) were overcooked, soft and not al dente) but I had a pleasant meal. I would not run back in a hurry, but would be happy to go again.
Brilliant service. Our gorgeous waitress advised us on what to order and the meal was delicious. Garlic bread, oysters Kilpatrick, spaghetti marinara, Apple crumble..wow what a feast. San Martino prosecco.....100 dollars... brilliant value with lovely service too. We'll be back🎉🎉
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La Vela came highly recommended by several locals when we first moved in to the area. We've finally got around to having lunch on a Friday and wish we'd done it sooner. To start, we had complimentery arancini balls, they were bite sized but packed a flavour punch. One entree of bruschetta between three was simple but satisfying with sweetish tomatoes and a hint of balsamic vinegar on a toast which was crispy and not too filling. Mains consisted of the Friday lunchtime specials and we each had a favourite pasta. Gnocchi Portofino was mama's go to: she loved the larger sized gnocchis which melted in ones mouth, in a devine tomato sauce and the prawns tails cut off - a must. For moi it is Fettucini in a not too rich cream sauce done Alfredo with quality ingredients. The third was the Rigatoni Arrabiata with generous additions of prawns and mussels, loved by our acclaimed home cook. Rarely do we all have dessert, however we were so impressed with the menu we ordered Tiramisu, Mama missed some liquer being in there, however, still delicious. Sticky date pudding no complaints and a White Chocolate Pannacotta I found became more flavoursome as it rose in temperature. Our server, Anna, was very knowledgeable, quite affable and professional. We too will recommend La Vela and be sure to return to taste more of the culinary delights.
Great atmosphere and friendly staff. Food was great and very tasty and will definitely come again.
This is an amazing place. Authentic homemade Italian food. Everything we ordered was delicious! The gnocchi with duck ragout, was so tasty soft pillows of potato like I have never had before. Homemade pasta Alfredo cream sauce equally good. If I lived here I would go again for sure, traditional home cooked Italian goodness. YUM.
I celebrated my 40th birthday at La Vela recently with my family we had a table of 14 people and the food and service was amazing all my guests really enjoyed themselves. Thank you so much for making my birthday special. We will definitely be recommending you to our friends and we will definitely be back.
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