Di Stasio Citta restaurant in the CBD.
1/9Di Stasio Citta restaurant in the CBD.Supplied
Canapes.
2/9Canapes.Supplied
The classics:steak and potatoes.
3/9The classics:steak and potatoes.Supplied
On the edge at Di Stasio Citta.
4/9On the edge at Di Stasio Citta.Supplied
Pasta at Di Stasio Citta
5/9Pasta at Di Stasio CittaJosh Robenstone.
White negroni.
6/9White negroni.Justin McManus
Mortadella milk buns.
7/9Mortadella milk buns.Eddie Jim
Negroni.
8/9Negroni.Eddie Jim
Inside Di Stasio Citta.
9/9Inside Di Stasio Citta.Eddie Jim

Good Food hat15/20

Italian$$$

Brutalist stylings give this Italian stallion an immediate sense of occasion. Eccentric white-jacketed waitstaff flit among slabs of concrete and marble as artworks are beamed onto the towering walls. The Euro-heavy wine list is serious business,but there’s room for play in this palace.

Top buttons are coaxed undone as the first round of white negronis blankets the table,joined by a foil-wrapped sandwich that’s superb in its simplicity:crustless white bread and veal cotoletta you could cut with a spoon. Otherwise,all signs point to pasta.

Dainty handmade capellini are strewn with chunks of crab,and light lasagne Pasqualina is meat and bechamel-free. Golf ball-sized lemon-ricotta doughnuts make for a zesty finale,while the staff favourite of vanilla tart – with its decadent marriage of mascarpone and white chocolate – fits right into this unflinching room.

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