Diners' Choice: Italian restaurants in Sydney

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Updated 05 December 2024

Looking for restaurants with the best overall Italian cuisine in Sydney? You’re in the right place. Each month OpenTable analyses more than 400,000 new diner reviews. We sort the results by category to help you discover new favourites. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

DOC Pizza & Mozzarella Bar - Sydney

4.8

4.8 (84)

$41 to $100

Italian

Surry Hills

About the restaurant

D.O.C is real Italian eating and age old simplicity refreshed with contemporary flair. A celebration of heritage. A joy in sharing. Authentic, exuberant, and outrageously Italian.

Top review

Martin

Dined 1 day ago

Unassuming from the outside, go in and have great pizza , good service and nice atmosphere.

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Three-course DOC Degustazione menu ($70)

Braci Osteria + Pizzeria

4.9

4.9 (67)

$41 to $100

Italian

Willoughby

About the restaurant

Braci Osteria + Pizzeria brings the fiery passions of Italy and Australia to Sydney's lower North Shore. Slide up to the bar to enjoy spuntini accompanied by wines and cocktails, or enjoy pizza and pasta with good company in the dining room or on the terrace.

Braci is an experience to be shared with friends and family. The flavours of Braci have been developed with the heart and soul of our experienced kitchen team and can accommodate to appetites of all sizes. The bar features a carefully curated and exclusive wines, spirits, and beers to accompany your culinary journey.

Elegant simplicity is at the heart of everything we do. Eat well + eat often.

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Angela

Dined 3 days ago

Always lovely food. And the best service. I left the suburb almost a year ago and haven’t been back in that time. The standard is still really high!! Thank you for a great night.

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Experience

Best of Braci

Chester White Cured Diner

4.9

4.9 (57)

$41 to $100

Italian

Potts Point

About the restaurant

Welcome to your home away from home. The locals' lounge room.
Where new and old friends from around the globe gather for organic charcuterie, house-made pasta + European and Australian wine.

Owner Stu and his team enjoy meats of Europe, the pastas of Italy, and wines from off the beaten track. The restaurant comes together over a love of pork and swill (and country music).

The kitchen team spends afternoons pickling, rolling gnocchi, making focaccia and keeping an eye on our beloved cured meats and pecorino cheese wheels. By nightfall the show is on, the house is full and the atmosphere is swinging.

So come on in and let us guide you through our menu. Welcome to our Diner!!

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Stephen

Dined on 13 Dec 2024

Great ambiance, amazing team and service, awesome food and overall value for money, thoroughly recommend!

La Botte D'Oro

4.5

4.5 (149)

$40 and under

Italian

Leichhardt

About the restaurant

Authentic Italian Cuisine Since 1977, La Botte D'oro has been combining the best of modern and traditional Italian cooking and service into a tantalising restaurant experience. Come enjoy Nonna's handmade pasta and our wood fired pizzas.

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Helen

Dined 2 days ago

Fabulous service, ambience and especially food. Great night!

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Tuesday Special: Pasta e Vino!

Poppitino

4.8

4.8 (463)

$41 to $100

Italian

Kingswood

About the restaurant

PoppiTino… your Penrith Italian restaurant, located in the New Cadden’s Corner precinct. You will feel like you have stumbled your way into the hills of Florence. A humble ambience, matched with our passion for authentic, fresh Italian food, we offer you the perfect place to come together and enjoy the warmth of our amazing food and hospitality.

Inspired by traditional Italian recipes and methods selected by a handful of our chefs, our dishes are a reflection of our wealth of experience and appreciation of provenance. Our menu has been created for you to enjoy in your own way, whether you’re sharing plates or ordering individually.....

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Samantha

Dined 1 day ago

Very attentive staff, great cocktails, we love that this is our neighborhood favourite

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4.8

4.8 (102)

$41 to $100

Italian

Redfern

About the restaurant

A bustling, independent restaurant located upstairs on Redfern Street.
Fontana serves Italian food from a frequently changing menu, wines made with care, a small selection of cocktails, and plenty of good times.
We have a small bar where walk-ins are always welcome.

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Paul

Dined 2 days ago

Had a great experience, staff were very accommodating and lifted the experience to another level. Definitely coming back for more

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Experience

3 course $75 set menu for large groups

Experience

4 course $85 set menu for large groups

Paski Vineria Popolare

4.8

4.8 (57)

$41 to $100

Italian

Darlinghurst

About the restaurant

Paski Vineria Popolare is a restaurant & wine bar, with more casual vibe on the ground floor (walk-ins only) and more curated food and wine selection on the upstair floor (bookings and walk-ins). The venue serves Italian food, freshly made pasta, from small individual nibbles to more substantial dishes.

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Rob

Dined 7 days ago

this was the 3rd time we have been here and it continues to be excellent. great friendly service really made our evening

Devine Food & Wine

4.8

4.8 (543)

$41 to $100

Italian

Sydney CBD

About the restaurant

Devine is one of the city’s most established wine bars, on the corner of Market Street and Clarence Street, in the heart of Sydney CBD and a short stroll to the QVB, State Theatre and Town Hall.
Devine is the spot to find tapas, Italian-inspired a la carte and an excellent wine by the glass selection. Long known for it’s popular lunches and after work eats, you’ll see the hustle and bustle of the city coming in to wind down; sinking into the banquettes or sitting up at the bar with some share plates.
Freshly shucked Sydney Rock Oysters, zucchini flowers and artisan salumi boards might be the best way to start.
Then any of the daily house made pastas, market fresh fish of the day, or the Wagyu Steak are a must!

Choose from over 400 wines on the Award winning wine list at Devine - with 40 available by the glass! European grape varieties and natural wine producers aplenty.

At just a stone’s throw from Darling Harbour, Devine is a must for corporate meals, social & family celebrations

Top review

Jeremy

Dined 3 days ago

Superb evening at Devine - absolutely delicious food, wonderful ambiance and very attentive staff and management, who despite being busy with larger Christmas groups, could not do enough for us. Amazing selection of wine to add to the enjoyment. Thank you for a truely wonderful experience. Very much looking forward to visiting the next time we are down from Tokyo.

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4.9

4.9 (405)

$41 to $100

Italian

Rushcutters Bay

About the restaurant

Casual Italian Restaurant with Friendly service and traditional food. Bar seating and dining tables with two different rooms. We are a small but vibrant place.

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Elisa

Dined 7 days ago

It’s always a great experience dining at Figo, the food is amazing and the service impeccable. You have to try it and , you will not be disappointed.

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4.8

4.8 (19)

$41 to $100

Italian

Bondi Beach

About the restaurant

Two very special but uniquely different places are the inspiration behind Pompei’s. The spectacular rustic beauty of Cortina perched high in the Alps of northern Italy underpins everything we do. And the eclectic cool chic of the world’s most famous beach shapes how we do it. Just as the dramatic vertical pale peaks of the Dolomites contrasts with the cosmopolitan marine landscapes of Bondi, our faith in traditional artisanal hand-crafting cooking contrasts with our creativity and innovation to produce delicately balanced healthy dishes. It’s our tradition in evolution, continuing our journey guided by fond memories of my mother’s Italian home cooking. They say there’s two sides to every story - so stay a while and hear ours. We might be from Cortina, but we’ve made this place our home. And both places define us. We’re Bondi made Italian.

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Craig

Dined 4 days ago

One of the best casual eating experiences in Sydney, authentic Italian cuisine. One of my favourites

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