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Eat your way around the Hills
Learn to cook like a master chef
Sydney welcomes yet another overseas celebrity chef to its shores - with mixed results.
Jamie’s Italian has landed in Sydney and the crowds are loving it - just get a load of hour-long wait for a table. And that’s mid-week. We’d hate to see what it’s like on a Saturday night. And whether you want to get his face tattooed on your inner thigh or set fire to a pile of his 13-odd cookbooks, old Fat Lips is delivering tasty food at reasonable prices. Jamie Oliver has obviously got this restaurant chain thing down. There’s talk of plenty more of his restaurants to open in Australia, too. It’s like the march of the cane toad, only faster and far more delicious.
Aside from the crazily uncomfortable metal chairs made, seemingly, for quick get-in-and-get-out dining, and a menu strewn with vaguely nauseating menu descriptions like “all our beautiful pasta is freshly made right here every day with love” (barf), there's good stuff to be had. Avoid the "posh chips" with “insanely good truffle oil” and head straight for the Italian nachos - a pile of deep-fried cheesy ravioli with spicy tomato sauce. Cute. Or a plate of big fat Sicilian olives served over ice with sheets of Sardinian crisp-bread. Small red capsicums are filled with whipped ricotta and dressed with balsamic and olive oil and pepped up with micro beet greens. An entrée carbonara is good value at $12 and perfect for inner-city workers after a quick no-fuss lunch, but it’s let down by waterlogged and under-seasoned bucatini. On the other hand, though, it's made with proper guanciale (the cured pork jowl that makes many a great carbonara). And then there’s some very well made ice cream on the table covered in smashed house-made honeycomb, as well as thin ribbons of pineapple (they're calling it pineapple carpaccio) with a scoop of blood orange and chilli sorbet for dessert.
This restaurant is big, loud and busy. You know those restaurants you see in 90s movies where there’s always an exceedingly long wait with an uninterested maitre d’ at the other end and the music in the dimly lit, industrial-style room is always some kind of throbbing house? Well, that’s Jamie’s Italian. And that’s heaven for a lot of people. For everyone else, the new Fratelli Fresh on Bridge Street is a ten-minute walk away.
Sydney 2000
Telephone 02 8240 9000
Price per person including drinks up to $60.00
Bookings recommended
Open Mon-Sat 11.30am-late
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Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Um, fairly confident Fratelli Fresh is busy and noisy, and I've always had to wait for a table there.
Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012 04:31:36
Today my boyfriend and I visited Jamie's Italian and WOW the food was amazing.Yes, its busy... Buts that's only because everyone in Sydney is trying to get a bite. It has a fantastic atmosphere! Great lay out. Our food came out pretty fast. But WOW did it just taste amazing. I could not have asked for a better eating experience. Don't expected this place to be a posh Italian restaurant it's too layed back for that. It definitely has that Jamie Oliver down to earth touch. Just Great Food!!!!!!!!!! Will be going back for sure.
Posted on Fri 17 Feb 2012 07:51:21