Tipo 00 - Melbourne

We came as a walk in for lunch and were lucky enough to snare a seat at the bar!We chose the chefs banquet menu and I can honestly say this is the best meal I have eaten in a long time!The standout dishes were the focaccia and ricotta, truffle risotto, Wagyu pappardelle and tipomisu!! Amazing service, wine and food! Not as expensive as I expected at all. Not to be missed ❤️❤️❤️

First things first: if you definitely want to eat here (and you should) then book in advance. We went mid week and had to book about 3 weeks ahead. Yes they take walk ups but there just simply isn't room for the number of people who chance it. On the night we were there I saw a steady stream of people get turned away.Yes it's small and noisy, but it's small and noisy done well. Often when a place is described as 'small' you find yourself having to precariously balance plates on mini tables with there always seeming to be one dish too many for the table to accommodate, or alternatively, banging elbows with the people at the next table. Not so here. Both the tables and the distance between them were spot on given the space available. And although it was noisy it wasn't the kind of 'noisy' that requires shouting just to maintain a conversation.There were three of us at our table. We shared several starters, a couple of mains, a side and two desserts. This coupled with several wines (we were buying by the glass, so not necessarily the most cost effective method but one that allowed us to try a few different wines) came to $245. Every dish we ordered was beautifully presented and absolutely delicious. My only disappointment was that I couldn't try everything on the menu. The wines were all expertly described by the wine waiter and were good matches for the dishes we'd ordered.Our booking was for the 6-8pm service and although we were aware that people would be booked for our table at 8pm there was never a point at which our meals or the service we were given felt rushed. All in all a fantastic evening and I can't wait to go back to try some of the dishes I missed out on this time around.

Seven of us went for dinner. We had a vegan diner with us and her food for the four nights we have eaten out in Melbourne has been under whelming!When we arrived we were told that we were having a banquet dinner which we were unaware of until then.The banquet was amazing with three entrees to share, two main pasta dishes and one dessert each plus share plates of dessert.Our vegan guest was served exactly the same number of course at exactly the same time as ours and we were actually wishing we had all ordered vegan because her food too was amazing.Great food, great night and great service for such a busy restaurant!

Visited twice for business lunches and both times found the waiters to be unfriendly, the food orders incorrect and the food does not justify its high rating here. If I had one bad experience you could put it down to a bad day but I've had two seperate poor experiences. Try elsewhere for better value and taste

This place is very popular and couldn't book any night while we were in Melbourne so we decided to go here. It's very busy even when we walked in 3pm, surely not lunch or dinner time. We ordered two entree dishes and two main( both pasta) My squid ink pasta was very under seasoned and I need to add salt to it, my partner's rabbit dish was ok but nothing special. I thought it was quiet expensive for a pasta dish. Waitresses were nice but clearly busy with phone calls and accomodating a customer with a pram which was bit awkward cause parking in front of service station and blocking a way to the toilet. This place is very tight and very hard to pass around people, feel sorry for waitresses. It was nothing wrong and nice enough but I can't feel why this place is so talked lots. Maybe my expectations were too high. It's like when many friend told me to read Haruki Murakami, I felt " Am I the only one feeling what is so crazy about?"