THE BEST RAVIOLI or even yet, pasta itself in Sydney is at here and their original restaurant Pendolino (both located in the same building). I've dined at both restaurants and can recommend this restaurant for appreciators of Italian cuisine.
Excellent service. Perfect pacing of meal arrival and staff attentiveness. Delicious food especially the entrees. Staff are friendly and polite. The drinks terrace is a bit ho hum, but otherwise well worth a visit.
La Rosa always serves consistently good Italian food. The menu has strong Roman influences although our entree was the bread dumplings which are typical of the Alto Adige region in the North of Italy. The highlight for me was the wholemeal spaghetti, cooked to perfection teamed with anchovies, tomato, olives, chilli. #larosa #italianfood
FOOD = 4.0
AMBIENCE = 4.5
SERVICE = 4.5
Tried this place for the first time, loved the food and enjoyed the experience. Flavours were great and serves were decent too. The pizza and risotto was tasty. The donought desert was awesome. Have to come back again.
Like revisiting a restaurant from the 80’s. Pleasant and knowledgeable staff. Limited menu,all traditionalItalian dishes. I hade the tripe and my wife the house special Porchetta Romano.
Best place to be..
To have fun with family and friends..
Best place to hang around, food and workers are nice, working hard and serving nicely.
Helen | Grab Your Fork
+3.5
Forget the cheese trolley. Forget the dessert trolley. The porchetta trolley reigns supreme. It's wheeled through the dining room at La Rosa with sombre ceremony. Porchetta might be the flashy star of the show at La Rosa but the menu, which focusses on Roman cusine, has plenty of other equally tasty contenders. It's a little less formal (and less expensive) than sister restaurant, Pendolino, but still date night-worthy with crisp white tablecloths and attentive table service.
Compared to the price, food, service and atmosphere is excellent.
Taste: 3.5/5
Presentation: 2.5/5
Service: 5/5
Atmosphere: 4/5
Price Range: $100 for 2
Location: At centre of CBD, hard to park.
Overall Rating: 3.5/5
1 - Terrible
2 - Not very good
3 - Nothing Impressive
4- Fairly Good
5 - Amazing
Does My Bomb Look Big In This
+4
It’s been three years since I last had the pleasure of dining in The Strand Arcade at La Rosa. It’s a slick and sophisticated spot, even if it does play second fiddle to its better-known sibling, Pendolino, at the other end of the ornate, Victorian arcade.Separated from the restaurant by a dark screen, the bar is a cosy and intimate place to enjoy wine or a well-crafted cocktail. The Speyside Sour ($23.80) presents Glenfiddich 12-year old single malt under a frothy head of lemon, sugar, Angostura bitters and a twist of lemon rind that’s been expertly cleaned of all pith. The Cocold Old Fashioned ($19.70) tarts up the classic drink with chocolate bitters, topping it with fine flakes of chocolate and another textbook twist, this time, orange. While there is a bar menu, we hold out for dinner, so are hungry by the time we’re moved to our assigned table in the long, red-roofed room. Fast moving, black-clad staff quickly get us...
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I'm an Italian food lover and searching for the best Italian places across this one which seemed perfect for my hubby's birthday. This restaurant is located on level 2 of strand arcade. It's a bit difficult to find but using Google maps we got through it. The ambience is so beautiful perfect for a date. Dimly lit with candle on the table. The decor too is impressive with a chandelier in the middle and lot of seating space in and outside too. We booked online through zomato so we need not have to wait.
We started with the drinks. Very impressive selection of wines. Hubby had Johnny walker whiskey and me the classic medium red wine. Can't get the name but it was awesome. Had the 150ml glass.
For entrees we began with oyster which was very tasty. We also ordered the brushette which had tomato, feta cheese which was totally yummy. Since we didn't have to have pork we had the spinach brushette along with sour cream and potato too. Portions are small but the food was very yummy though.
Next we ordered for ricotta ravioli stuffed with spinach and it was simply excellent just loved it. Also ordered the capellini since hubby wanted to have chicken. It was the spaghetti pasta along with rosemary sauce. It was good too.
Definitely wanted to try their pizza so ordered the the funghi pizza which had portobello mushrooms along with mozzarella and porcini puree and it was delicious. Wanted to have a chicken pizza but it was not in the menu.
For desserts we ordered the ricotta meringue which was so beautifully presented and it has cream along with hints of orange sourness and it was yummy.
Service was slow and food did take time to come to the table but server lucie was extremely polite and friendly and apologised for the delay too. Lovely service by her.
Pricing is definitely high but simply loved the meal.
This restaurant is definitely recommended. Would love to come here again.
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Date night has rolled around again. Last week we visited the Milan Cricket Club, a British-inspired pop-up at La Rosa The Strand. Savvy restaurateur, Nino Zoccali, has snaffled the talented Old Fitzroy darling, Nic Hill, for a short term stint that turns his Italian restaurant into a British-Italian steakhouse. Think posh pub nosh, like an upmarket Scotch egg ($12) dragged through Oxford sauce, and hand cut raw beef on dripping toast ($26).
We opted to throw in oysters ($6/each) kept thematic with a stout vinegar dressing, and tender, grilled beef tongue ($24) made more punchy by not-quite-enough anchovy, and share a t-bone. Rest assured fillet steak eaters, there’s no difficult to handle bones to content with. Our 400g Rose Mallee British breed beef ($65) came sliced from the bone, with all its juicy pink glory on display. The marrow bone is filled with a tangy horseradish cremé that complements the tender and flavoursome beef and glazed Yorkshire pud. (if you need more than one, they’re a four buck add-on).
You’ll definitely need pleasantly oil-free hand-cut chips and béarnaise ($12). We were steered off the side salad in favour of the spring vegetable vinaigrette ($18) entree, littered with the season’s bounty of baby zucchini, sugar snaps and radishes. It’s a punishingly tart dressing—as you’ll find out if you put an onion into your mouth—that’s probably better suited to the start of your evening when libations from the circulating gin trolley are there to ease the pain. While I understand the Aussie focus, some dry English gins chosen to suit the British theming would have seen me indulge in a martini.
Service is attentive, and the fame of the chef has seen the usual La Rosa crowd give way to groups of younger men (my guess is chefs keen to keep an eye on what Hill is cooking next).
THE BEST RAVIOLI or even yet, pasta itself in Sydney is at here and their original restaurant Pendolino (both located in the same building). I've dined at both restaurants and can recommend this restaurant for appreciators of Italian cuisine.
Pretty good place though the service is a bit slow. The pizza and pasta were very good but the desserts were your standard quality nothing creative here.
I wish there had been more options to choose from too. Might come back
Elegant without pretense. Fine Italian fare served in leisurely but timely manner. The tall and lean waiter (seemed senior) was extremely well versed, kind and patient. We dined there at lunch with a kid present.
I took one star off because the blonde waiter just asked us to wait further and was not hurrying to find out what's going on as my friend's daughter cried silently for something that could be solved immediately with a waiter's help. Thankfully the senior waiter rescued the situation and was extra kind and attentive to our table.
Food's really top notch. My friend who's a Sydney resident already planned to come back.
Great Italian fare at a nice location and setting. The staff are very friendly and attentive, very good service. Food at a decent price in the CBD.
Lovely spot on the 2nd floor of magical Strand Arcade. Give the bruschetta misti, calamari with peas a try bit save space for the chocolate tart, its devine. Service is good, Coffee is great and they make good tea
Seems our order was missed but the restaurant made it up with some free olives. Food was good albeit pricey.
Nice place for long lunches.
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