I've been here a few times. We have been lucky but it can be tough to get a seat. Service can be…read moreslow at times. The food is awesome! They are BYO so that makes it easier!

We were hungry after a full day of exploring the Blue Mountains so we stopped in Katoomba for a…read morebite to eat. We dropped in on an early Sunday evening (around 6:30pm) to find a busy, lively restaurant. There's a couple tables outside to sit at but they were all taken. A bit odd that you order at the counter and pay right away when there are servers working. Note: they charge 10% weekend and public holiday surcharge. The menu is quite large with options of fresh bread, salad, soup, entree, crépes, pasta, from the oven, meats (beef, steaks and chicken), risotto, pizza and desserts. Pizzas come in three sizes ($14.00 AUD small, $18.00 AUD medium and $26.00 AUD family). - Caesar salad ($17.80 AUD) - cos lettuce, anchovies, bacon and croutons in a creamy dressing. The croutons are not your normal croutons. They were like stale puffed pieces of bread. Anchovies was the best part of this salad but it's a pretty meagre portion. Way overpriced for what you get. - Macho supreme ($18.00 AUD medium) - ham, prawns, bacon, pineapple, cabanossi, mushrooms, onion, capsicum, anchovies, olives and oregano. A medium is 11" and you get 8 pieces total. The pizza looks a bit small for a medium but it was enough to satiate the two of us. The thickness of the slices was satisfying and had a good crust to it too. My favourite part was the prawns. Will have to try the pasta next time and forgo being healthy ordering salad. Pizza won't blow you away but it's above average.

My family came here a few years ago when there were other owners and we loved it! Even though the…read morenew owners are here, we still love it! We are quite regular and they know us well. The good is cooked really well but the carbonara was a bit too creamy, no big deal though. The garlic bread is cooked to perfection and the spicy pizzas are fantastic! I would definitely recommend this shop to any lover of pizza and people who hate dominos! Much nicer than those chain pizza restaurants mainly because of how it is original recipes not loaded with grease or salt. 5/5!

What drew me to Michaelangelo's in the first place was the big reproduction of The Creation of…read moreAdam (by, of course, Michaelangelo) plastered on the sign. It looked classy, or at least an attempt to be classy. I can appreciate attempts to be classy, it's the thought that counts, after all. Alas, the service left a lot to be desired. The staff were quite curt and short with us, for no apparent reason. They weren't even busy or anything! The food is alright, but nothing to write home about. The pizzas arrived almost lukewarm. If it's not burning my tongue, it's not hot enough! The prices are relatively low, though, so if you're looking for something edible on the cheap, you're in Blaxland, and willing to put up with some snotty service, you could dine here.

Our group went here for supper on a Monday evening and were happy to find this one open. They have…read morea huge menu with many options. The food was very good, but a bit on the expensive side. I ordered the saffron chicken and prawns and it was delightful. We got our meals in a timely manner. Our friends ordered a sundae to share for dessert. It was beautiful and huge! The restaurant was clean and neatly organized.

It has been 10 weeks since we have sat in a restaurant thanks to covid so we were happy just to be…read morethere. It is a convenient place to the shopping centre and you can eat in or alfresco. Lunch for us was the special Chorizo Crepe and Schnitzel. The Schnitzel was huge. The food was OK, a bit like pub food. There was another a la carte menu but we really we just after lunch. The service was good and the cleaning before and after we sat down was evident.

Near constant attention/interruptions by the wait staff. They definitely need to improve…read morecommunication there. Asked regularly about drinks, meal orders etc even after we had already placed them. The food though, I can't remember the last time I had pasta that good. The cheesecake was the best I've ever had, too. Well worth it for a fine night out.

My wife and I dined at Restaurant Trivi on Saturday March 11, it was our 28th wedding anniversary…read more We ordered a glass of sparking wine to celebrate when the waitress returned she said it was complementary. The food we ordered was excellent and the service faultless and friendly. We have been to Trevi on a number of occasions over the years. we felt the service and food was not as good as it was when it first opened. Recently a friend and her husband dined there nd loved it . We loved it too and the price was a pleasant surplice We will definably be back.

My new favourite place to eat in the mountains! I have to admit, I was pretty excited to see…read moreunwavering 5/5 yelp reviews, and all I can say is that they are well deserved! This little restaurant is located on Lurline St in Katoomba. It's recently started doing lunch on Fridays and Saturdays (from 11:30am), which is when we went. We started off by having the freshly baked Pinenut and Rosemary bread. For our entree we split a serve of the Scallops ($18) which were amazing. We could not fathom how they managed to get scallops so right, when they are located so far from the sea... but trust me, they did. For mains I had the Pork Belly ($32). This was based on a previous Yelp review and I'm so happy I ordered it. It was perfection. I'm drooling at my keyboarding thinking about it. My wife had the Crispy Skin Salmon ($29.50) which was cooked to perfection. Salmon cooked this way is not an easy thing to get just right... but they did it. We also ordered a side of Chat potatoes ($9) because who can resist roast potatoes cooked in duck fat? They were great, lots of flavour. I highly recommend that everyone looking for a place to eat in Katoomba (or the mountains) makes the effort to come have a meal here. It was a highlight of our weekend away, and we will be back (many times!).

This is the no. 1 restaurant in the Blue Mountains on another famous travel site, and the rainy…read moreweeknight we visited, the place had a full house. I was wondering why as the food did not seem as sophisticated on photos as, say, Garage or Solitary. I got my answer alright. Basically, and despite the website's claims to Italian-Japanese fusion, the cooking style is pre-nouvelle-cuisine French ("cuisine bourgeoise" as Houellebecq might call it) as "preserved" by the Japanese; that is, a style that is easy to find in Japan but almost inexistent in France these days, except in the homes of old (bourgeois) families where the tradition is passed down. Like mine - grandma is a Colonel's wife, and spent her life perfecting her skills in the matter, as she needed to feed 8 children. Of course, this old style of cooking with elaborate sauces at the centre of rich dishes is very tasty and tends to be well received by just about anybody in the dining public, and here it is done well with excellent Australian ingredients, so no wonder this place rates so highly. It also happens to be easy to screw up, which is why few places outside Japan (which has insane quality standards and perfectionist chefs) still do it, so it's a testimony to how well Pins' kitchen is run that they can do this kind of thing so reliably. My fillet was an inch thick and very wide, nicely scorched on both sides yet medium rare in the middle. The Diane sauce, made with brandy, tomatoes, peppercorns, mushrooms and cream (I'm guessing; could have been butter) was rich and wonderful, a true expression of a style of cooking I rarely get to enjoy these days, that you might have found in the auberges in the countryside before cheaper and simpler "put some leaves on top of a bit of meat" took over the Western world, ironically (as the Japanese are now custodians of cuisine classique) thanks to the influence Japanese kaiseki-ryori had on Bocuse, Troisgros etc. - in fact I don't think I've ever had a Diane sauce this good. The duck fat roasted potatoes tasted like exactly like their name suggested: dense, well cooked, ummami like there was no tomorrow. The garlic prawn spaghetti were not, as might have been expected in Australia, spaghetti and prawns tossed in olive oil in which garlic was fried. Instead, again came a cream and tomato based sauce, this time with complexity added by lightly fried leeks (genius! I'm borrowing this one for home) and of course the large prawns and al dente (!) linguine (not spaghetti, but I think that's an improvement). Dessert (pictured) was the Bombe Alaska. Ever since watching the final scene with Mr Wint and Mr Kidd in Diamonds are Forever I've wanted to order this, but nobody ever offers it on their menu. Well again, we find the cuisine bourgeoise impeccably executed; the macaroon had the perfect texture, easily breaking apart under the fork but retaining its chewiness under the tooth; the textures moving from hard (macaroon) to soft (meringue) as you move up, yet belonging to the same family of flavours (roasted sugars). It was rich, and we were already full, but we still managed to eat most of it. The wine list was fairly simple, in that everything was $7.50 a glass. I only had a glass of desert wine, but it was predictably both excellent and a good match for the dessert and the style. Service was, of course, excellent. The interior is a work of art, a balance between delicate artworks worthy of fine dining establishments and the level of comfort one expects of one's local. I am very inexperienced in my understanding of Japanese art, but I think I saw some artworks in the style of the Rinpa school; perfectly appropriate, philosophically, to the food presented, in tying it with a period characterized by a shift from the Spartan minimalism of the early Edo period towards hedonistic decadence and a tendency by the daimyo ruling class to start imitating the Japanese bourgeois merchant class... Quick mention of the garden which is well kept and with many Japanese elements (such as the gravel path and round bushes). I have to confess to having had food poisoning on the day BEFORE coming to Pins; I thus arrived utterly not hungry, still going for it mostly not to waste our long drive and hotel night and give my wife a nice date night. Yet, the food was so well made and comforting that I couldn't help but finish all the dishes and still order dessert. This place absolutely deserves its reputation and we will probably return for our next trip. It's the kind of restaurant where one wants to try everything on the menu, because it is probably the product of long years of work iterating towards perfection and so everything will be a hit. Do watch out for the 2% credit card charge - bring cash.

Altough this is the only cheesesteak place I've eaten at but every time I do it never fails to…read moreimpress. The staff are always really kind and there is always fast service even when the place is full. The cheesesteaks are always cooked perfectly and are full of flavor and served as should be. The burgers are also to die for as well as the fries! Overall this is a great place to eat and being on the highway is easy to access and great to stop on a long drive when you need a bite too eat. I would recommend this to anyone who would like a good feed but it isn't great for a light snack!

I was on a tour of the Blue Mountains and this was one of our stops. I was pleasantly surprised…read morewith the menu. I had been in Sydney for about a week and couldn't find any good salad options on most of the restaurants I went to. There were plenty of salad and gluten free options on this menu, I got the chicken salad - $24.90 iceberg lettuce, avocado, cucumber, pickled ginger. I'm Not sure if the salad was that great or if I was so excited to finally eat a salad. I don't remember the service being that great. I was in/out pretty quickly. The restaurant was cute but I don't remember seeing the views that some others mentioned.

Made a stop in Leura Village for lunch on the way to Blue Mountains. I found this little charming…read morecafe with amazing views and welcoming atmosphere. I sat by the window and ordered as quickly as I could. Since I was with a tour group, I had limited time, so ended up having to take my food to go. I went with the Sesame Crusted Atlantic Salmon, served with pan fried potatoes and avocado salsa. The Salmon was lightly fried, delicately crispy, tender and well seasoned. That Sesame crust was also beautifully done, with black sesame and regular sesame. Potatoes were nice and crunchy, with great flavor, while the avocado salsa included red pepper and onion, which gave it a lovely acidity. This was fresh and colorful addition to the dish. For dessert, I had the Sticky Date Cake with butterscotch sauce. I've tried this in the States, and wasn't really a fan but having it in Australia was a much better experience. The cake was delightfully moist, with the wonderful taste of dates, was made even tastier with the rich, sweet sauce with notes of caramel and toffee. Service was pretty good. The waiter came right away, but the food just took a little longer than expected.

So quaint in the little town of Leura. Just mins walk from the train station that takes you to…read moreThree sisters and the Blue Mountains. Service was very OZ. Cheerful and campy. Pizza was expensive, but very tasty. Atmosphere was eclectic and charming.

This is an amazing place - I came here for lunch after visiting the Blue Mountains and got here…read morejust in time before people started getting told that they would have to wait to get a seat. Service was fast, although we had to wait a little for the food to arrive. I love that the food arrived at the same time, and they looked spectacular. I would personally highly recommend the Calamari and the Sausages, but saw a lot of people having the pizza as well. All in all a fantastic meal and I'm leaving satisified