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?

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!

We were here on a voucher so the price was right! They also have a meal deal here too…read more The garlic bread and salad were our starters and they were fine. The pasta and pizza was very good (see pics) The little ice cream was just too tempting so I shoved it into my Coke. We were the only people seated here tonight so I hope the voucher kiss of death doesn't apply to this place.

A fairly new restaurant. Food here was great, the owner of the restaurant was very lovely. Although…read moreI forgot to take a photo of the brownie (which was delicious)!

Requirements for lunch were a place with a waterview. I went searching along the Parramatta river…read morefor such a place and stumbled on Oliveto. FOOD Just snuck in for the winter special. 2 course meal for $40. Entrees - Beef carpaccio, rocket, caper berries, horseradish, hand rolled grissini http://www.yelp.com.au/biz_photos/oliveto-restaurant-and-bar-rhodes?select=YLaArPiI-0m8ErcysGmzvw - Fried baby calamari, semi-dried tomatoes, chilli, basil, garlic http://www.yelp.com.au/biz_photos/oliveto-restaurant-and-bar-rhodes?select=l4KyYoFxeXlA5v4lT0HD7w Mains - Zuppa di pesce, mussels, prawns, scallops, calamari, tomato broth http://www.yelp.com.au/biz_photos/oliveto-restaurant-and-bar-rhodes?select=4s-kPY7atkHE2CktvbLv3A#rknmxn1578l8As15QjpxYA - Wood fired calzone, parma ham, tomato, mushrooms, rocket, olives http://www.yelp.com.au/biz_photos/oliveto-restaurant-and-bar-rhodes?select=4s-kPY7atkHE2CktvbLv3A#l7lyXLP2hGteQBGUgYn5EQ Entrees were fantastic. Perfect size, flavour and presentation. Mains were average. Seafood seemed a bit lacking in the Zuppa. Calamari rings were so tiny! The calzone bread was nice and soft but I wasn't a fan of the cheese used. I like particularly strong tasting cheese so this just tasted more towards melted rubber than cheese for me. OVERALL The place ticked the requirement I was looking for. With glass all around the restaurant it enable us to enjoy the sunshine and waterview. Great restaurant for relaxed daytime eating.

One of the best restaurants I have ever dine in, very friendly staff the food is above great "real…read moreItalian taste", decoration is very elegant and the location is behind amazing, I strongly recommend Oliveto for families and functions... Well done

Possibly the worst steak sandwich my mother has ever had and couldn't eat it. The Caesar salad with…read morechicken was just as bad. Don't bother.

Wonderful family restaurant! Our server Rebecca provided excellent service combined with some great…read moreItalian food with an Australian twist. Definitely get some of the BBQ octopus, salt & pepper squid and carbonara.

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

Delicious toppings. Delicious bases. Good price and friendly staff…read more We had the Firenze, meat and Naples (vegan modified) So good!!!

Cute little hole in the wall in Dundas, run by a lovely Italian-Australian family. Pizza was really…read moredelicious, probably needed a couple more minutes in the oven but I prefer crispy. Had a satay prawn pizza - amazing! A little bit of spice in the satay, big juicy prawns and snow peas. Firenze was good too, really tasty Italian salami. Give it a go!

Although the meals came out at different times the food was delicious. The atmosphere was…read moredelightful, classy music. The wine list was extensive.

The Food is always amazing here , the staff are so attentive & friendly and the restaurant has such…read morea chill and welcoming atmosphere. Love coming here and will continue to.