After a week of birthday celebrations, last night was my night. I decided to take everyone to my favourite local Italian restaurant, L’Osteria in North Fitzroy. I love this place & their stuffed olives are the best, you may have noticed that I have a thing for stuffed olives & when I went to Ladro a couple of weeks back to find they had taken them off the menu I was devastated, luckily this place still had them so I promptly ordered a few servings for all to share. They are green olives stuffed with veal pork & parmigiano then crumbed & fried, sensational! Next we had some miniature vegetarian arancini which were lovely. For my main I had pappardelle alla ragu di salsiccia di finocchio, which translated is beautiful hand made pasta with a ragu of fennel sausages, tomato & radicchio, fantastic combination, the fennel flavour really came through quite strongly & I love the aniseed taste so very good for me. We didn’t have dessert tonight as my mum had bought a cake to have back at home.
Most of the pastas are homemade here & the menu changes seasonally so I never get bored with the choice. They also do pizza which I have not yet tried though I hear it is also pretty good. Highly recommended place to go, everyone was very impressed & I will be back there soon to try some more of the Autumn menu before it changes.L’Osteria
616 Nicholson Street
North Fitzroy
Ph (03) 9489 6302
6 comments:
Gosh, there's a lot of birthdays in your house right now Ange! Happy Birthday to you and doesn't that pappardelle looks incredible?
Happy Birthday Ange!!!!
Happy birthday for last weekend - sounds like you had a great time!
This and Movida look great. Our sort of food. Being a former Melburnian I miss the great Italian and Greek food down there.
Will take on both these suggestions for our next visit -- where we sneak down and eat ourselves silly for a few days. And at such a reasonable price compared to Sydney.
Keep on with those reviews.
Oh, and how rude of me... Hippo Birdy Two Ewes!
Thks for all of the birthday wishes & would love to hear what you think of these places if you ever get the chance to go
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