Excellent friendly service & great foods - it's like partying at your family place - a must for…read moreeveryone.

Really nice pizza and pasta restaurant. Pasta is cooked al dente and not overburdened with sauce,…read morebut still has lots of flavour. The pizza is nice, with good dough (but could have used more toppings). The chips are very nice, at first I thought they were too thick, but they manage to retain an excellent level of crunchiness on the outside, despite their big size

Great place, great good and friendly service. Located near…read moreCarlingford train station, you can park there if the back streets around the restaurant are full. Staff are helpful and friendly. Great dish sizes, they support taking the rest home. Food is fresh and tastes great!! Takeaway area is being updated at the moment. But my previous experience has been just as good as eating in.

A Taste of Tuscany, on Pennant Hills road in Carlingford. It saves some travel time to Italy!…read more If you're a local it's a handy little restaurant that does some good Italian cuisine. There's ample room to grab a seat inside although there is also a take-away and home delivery option. When in Rome, or in this case Tuscany or to be more specific Carlingford, we always seem to do what the Italians do and over order. A pizza (or two) to share between everyone, an entree each, a main of pasta each, a dessert each(the tirimasu seems to be the most popular option) and a coffee to help digest it down. And of course a glass of red that lingers throughout the night. No you won't think you're in Tuscany but it might give you a taste. Maybe?

Good old Mum and Pop team running this establishment. After passing it every day for nearly 3…read moreyears, I thought my wife's birthday would be a good occasion to test it out. My expectations where extremely high and i must say, they where exceeded. I had the cannelloni, mum had the fish in tomato source, dad struggled to finish his Veal Parmigiana, my wife some creamy meat and our 3 year old enjoyed putting endless parmesan on her penne Bolognese. Nothing like home cooked meals, if you cook at home like this, adopt me. It is in the old school building in St. Ives, which makes it already extra special. Free standing building with outdoor seating as well as kitsch Italian indoor room. Parking never a problem, the atmosphere really throws you back to a time where medici ruled over the north. This is NOT a modern Italian restaurant or some fusion thingy. If you ever been to Tuscany, the low lands what is Venecia, if you ever ran through Verona and screamed loud Julia at 3 in the morning, than this restaurant is for you. It does not get any more authentic than this.

This is a really nice little restaurant in the shopping area of Beecroft. It's not often you find…read morea fine dining establishment in the suburbs out on its own, but this does a great job (apparently for 20+ years) of quality Italian food in a stylish little shop front. Only a dozen tables or so, the service was attentive and charming without being overbearing. They were quick with a laugh and a good-natured joke. The stand-out attribute of the food was the portion sizes. It's not often you order pork belly and get something the size of a full pork roast, but it happened here and with a delicious mustardy sauce and crunchy potatoes was the highlight of our meal. The tomato salad was a bit lacklustre (the tomatoes were a bit too bland for it), but the veal saltimbocca was very good as was the scallops with mushrooms and prosciutto. We gave it our best shot but ended up leaving a fair bit on the plate, which the staff were only too happy to put in a doggy bag (and we weren't the only ones leaving with some left-overs). We'll definitely keep this in mind for a quiet romantic dinner again... we might just skip lunch first next time!

When the weather is rainy and stormy and you feel like something warm, what works best always seems…read moreto be something carb loaded. Thus, pizza is always a good idea! Anema E Core is a little restaurant (there is only two tables inside opposite their massive coffee machine and their indoor wood fired pizza oven, the rest of the tables are outside and with the weather being rainy they were not set up yet. We ordered the 4 Formaggi (Gorgonzola, Smoked buffalo Mozzarella, fiordilatte, Shaved Parmesan, basil,olive oil) Crudo E Rucola ( Rocket, prosciutto, shaved Parmesan, basil, olive oil) and for dessert the Nutella pizza all for takeaway. The base is ridiculously soft! I am in heaven. Nom nom nom I love this place! Staff are friendly and the chefs have a think Italian accent which adds to the authenticity of this tiny restaurant. We have booked to go again this Sunday, looking forward to trying their other pizzas and the coffee! Ciao :)

I absolutely love this place! It does pizza just like Italy. I had to look back at photos from when…read morewe were in Tuscany just to make sure I wasn't just making that up! Hubby and I come here at lease once a week for lunch and tonight we tried them out for dinner. Firstly, lunch. Pizzas and Paninis are the focus. They have $5 pizza - lunch size specials which have such soft chewy dough that we just love with fresh ingredients and lots of cheesy goodness on top. We usually end up ordering margherita and hot salami plus a Nutella calzone. The Nutella calzone fresh out of the oven can burn as you just can't wait to eat it but it is so good fresh! They do have some sitting there if you can't wait but you can have them make the pizzas to order. It takes all but 5 minutes most of the time to make the lunchtime size pizzas. Haven't had the chance to try their paninis but they are reasonably priced with it priced based on how many items you want on it. Dinner- this place is pumping at night! We didn't book but came in early for dinner (6pm!). I'd suggest to book as it is so popular! They have those metre pizzas if you're interested but as we have it all the time, we thought we'd try their specials. We weren't disappointed! They don't have a standard dinner menu, it seems it's either pizzas or their specials which is how we like it. Christian seems to have his specials based on produce availability which works for us! We had full 3 course menu as we couldn't help but want all the specials. Entrees- The prawns wrapped in speck just brought out the flavoursome freshness of the prawns. It also came with some bread. The calamari and zucchini fritters were well fried. Not too oily and light. We had Tuscan pasta (Fisarmoniche pasta - had to look it up as I'd never seen it before!) with speck, Gorgonzola cheese and walnut. Sounds odd but it worked. Well balanced flavours and tasty! We also had the spaghetti marinara which had some clams, mussels, prawn and scallops. Pasta was al dente and had the seafood saltiness to it. Delicious! We couldn't resist having dessert even though we were so full! We chose the Tuscan dessert special as it was something a bit different plus the Tiramisnu. Our usual pizza chef from lunch time sold it to us when we spoke to him earlier in the evening that Christian's wife had made the Tiramisu. The tiramisu was just awesome and I'd come back just for it. Looks like they had some you could take away! The Tuscan dessert had cantuccini (biscotti) and a fig/almond tart which was the tiniest slice I'd ever seen but it was very rich so tiny for a good reason! The biscotti wasn't too hard and just right for after dinner and went well with hubby's macchiato. Definately a great place and the staff are so friendly. Always feel welcomed to come here even when the place is pumping and busy!

Fantastic pizza. No wonder they win all the competitions. Wood fired. Gourmet ingredients…read more Imaginative combinations of toppings.

See the word 'rules' anywhere near a restaurant and you usually have me suppressing a shudder of…read moredigust. I get that dress codes and appropriate behaviour is expected and courteous in fancier joints but please, have a little faith that your customers understand social conventions rather than spelling it out like we're idiots. Mezza Via however has rules not for the customer but for themselves. And what a testament that is to their mission for greatness! Only the finest Italian "00" flour. Only Italian whole peeled tomatoes. Only Italian Fior Di Latte and Buffalo Mozzarella. All pizzas must be hand-stretched to order. (no rolling pins or dough rollers) No pizza will ever be pre-made. All pizza makers must be trained in Italian technique. And it pays off in the way of delightfully thin and crusty pizza bases with fluffy crusts. Mezza Via sticks to the Italian tradition of doing things simply but well, not overloading their pizzas with mounds of toppings. The Margherita DOP is without a doubt the best I've tasted outside of Italy, and the only place where the buffalo mozzarella hasn't been overcooked to the point where it's yellow and rubbery and you can no longer tell that it's fresh mozzarella. No, it's still white and moist and glorious! The table next to us almost had me in fits of jealousy when I saw their 2 metre pizza get carried to their table like a roman emperor. It looked beautifully cooked with nary a soggy crust in sight, which can be all too commonplace in other pizzerias that serve long pizzas and fail in the mammoth task of cooking such a large pizza properly. I'll be back again with a larger group and a stretchier pants.

Not only is Cantucci's my local pizzeria, it is also my absolute favourite. Despite a recent change…read moreof ownership, my most reliable restaurant still fails to disappoint. The pizza is of just as high a quality as it always has been and the new staff are warm, hospitable and responsive. Cantucci's will never disappoint, and that makes it very easy to recommend.

There were eight of us and we wanted to eat at 2:30pm on a Sunday. This was the only place that…read moreadvertised food was served all day...and it was. The antipasto plate was very good especially the meatballs and zucchini flowers. As it was one child's birthday we got a Mickey Mouse pizza along with five other pizzas including a calzone. They were all good. There was a mix of desserts. The lavender scented pannacotta was nice but without a whiff of lavender. Parking on a Sunday is easy but any other day there are limits and you might have a walk in a side street. Whilst most of the wait staff were happy and friendly, we did strike a couple who were grumpy....we think one of them was the manager The pastas looked interesting so that might be the next meal

Best service and perfect food, good environment and it is suitable for people to celebrate some…read moreactivities

Got seated quickly by friendly waiter at 11am for Mothers Day Brunch on a Sunday morning. Very neat…read moreand cosy cafe with some outdoor seating available. Food came in no time after ordering. The cost for each brekkie/ brunch was around $12-17. There's also free self serve infused water available. The serving size for the Full English Brekkie was definitely sufficient and filling. The scrambled eggs were on point; the perfect balance between runny and fully scrambled. Just everything served on the rustic board was perfect. The pancakes were served generously, with a neat thick stack of 3. They were nice and light and fluffy. The mocha and latte were also amazingly good. The mocha was just the right amount of chocolate against the coffee, just how I like it! Highly recommended :)

Came here for brunch on a Sunday and didn't wait long to be seated. Ordered the big breakfast for…read moreone. It was a hearty meal and quite good quality and value. I also tried the mixed berry smoothie which was fantastic! Will be back to try other menu items including their coffee.