The Best Italian Restaurants in Sydney

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The Best Italian Restaurants in Sydney

Find where you'll be carb-loading next in Sydney — whether it's in the form of pasta, pizza or panzanella.

Bar Reggio

This long-running Italian restaurant has all the right ingredients for your next group get-togethers.

GellaFrenda

Penrith's sleek Italian eatery with a stellar wine cellar.

Paski Vineria Popolare

This two-storey wine bar in the former digs of This Must Be The Place hosts weekly wine tastings and boasts food from a former Ragazzi and 10 William Street chef.

Fratelli Paradiso

Pair one of the dozen Italian classics on the blackboard menu with one of its wines off the 100 percent Italian list.

Ormeggio at The Spit

Two-hatted, waterside, Italian dining on the lower north shore.

Bar Italia

This Little Italy stalwart has a limitless menu, $1 corkage and all the housemade gelato you could wish for.

Da Orazio

Orazio D'elia's red-doored Italian restaurant has returned to Hall Street.

Fontana

The Don Peppino's team has opened this Italian diner in the former digs of Ron's Upstairs, retaining all the charm from the space's previous occupant.

Buon Ricordo Ristorante

Be carried away to Europe within the walls of this fine restaurant.

Barbetta

Drop in for cannoli pancakes, a porchetta panini or a pasta making class.

Pilu Baretto

Finish your beach experience off with negronis, spritzers, oysters and salumi.

Il Baretto

The Surry Hills institution has relocated to Oxford Street.

Matteo

A 150-seat eatery with a pizza oven, Italian cocktail list and outdoor aperitivo deck.

Machiavelli Ristorante

A cozy family-run Italian restaurant in Sydney's CBD.

Palazzo Salato

You'll find this 120-seat haven for all things pasta and wine in a heritage-listed Clarence Street building, hailing from the team behind Ragazzi and Love, Tilly Devine.

a'Mare

The fine diner take Italian cooking to whole new delicious level.

Beppi's

You might just stumble upon a celeb or two when eating at this Aussie dining institution.

Bastardo

This 60s-inspired spot from Porteño crew serves up simple Italian food at its best.

Totti's

An Italian eatery helmed by Pinbone's Mike Eggert and Rockpool's Khan Danis and located inside the Royal Bondi.

Passeggiata

Waverley is home to a bright yellow Italian restaurant with ambitions to be the "Lucio's of the 21st century".

Zafferano Trattoria Mediterranea

Over 50 years of Sicilian history emerge at this South Dowling Street trattoria.

Olio

Kensington Street's Sicilian restaurant serving traditional dishes with contemporary flourishes.

ATTENZIONE! Food & Wine

An impressive quartet of seasoned hospos have teamed up to create the Euro-leaning venue of their collective dreams, with a mammoth wine offering and fancy snacks galore.

Pellegrino 2000

Consider your next date night sorted.

Hinchcliff House

This inner-city mega venue hosts four bars and restaurants inside an 1880's sandstone wool store.

Alberto's Lounge

A 70s-inspired Italian enoteca from the Restaurant Hubert crew.

Ragazzi Wine and Pasta

A CBD wine and pasta bar from the Love, Tilly Devine crew.

170 Grammi

The latest venue by Sydney's godfather of Neapolitan pizza is an ode to the cuisine of his wife's home city of Rome.

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