Da Giuseppe — Restaurant in Melbourne

Beautiful dining experience! I celebrated my birthday last night with two close friends at Da Giuseppe and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I had booked the morning prior and actually chose the wrong date accidentally but it was easy to modify the reservation myself online with no issue.

We arrived at 6:45pm and they allow for 1.5 hours to dine which we thought was appropriate. Our host greeted us warmly, if not mistaken I believe his name was Sal, and we were sat at a table in the bar section of the restaurant.

They have two areas either the bar or pizzeria but we enjoyed the bar and there were options to sit up on the actual bar or tables nearby.

The host handed us menus promptly and revealed a large selection of pizza, pasta and others which all sounded delicious.

We decided on the Margherita and Masaniello pizzas and the Gnocchi Napoli pasta. The pizzas came out very quickly and shortly after the gnocchi arrived. Our favourite definitely was the Margherita, the bottom was crispy with great crunch and flavour and the cheese and tomato base was cooked beautifully. The base wasn't too thin and the crust was nice and puffy.

The gnocchi was velvety soft and the napoli sauce was rich but not overbearing.

I also ordered a celebratory cosmopolitan cocktail which was presently nicely with great colour. Our host was very kind and added a bit extra so it was quite potent.

I also wanted to add that the host joined in the festivities by happily donning a party hat as well and that made me very happy they were open to celebrating with us and even one of the chefs joined in! Made for a fun and memorable experience that topped off the night.

I thoroughly enjoyed the dinner and would recommend Da Giuseppe to anyone seeking great Italian cuisine accompanied by gracious hospitality.

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This place makes the most amazing pizza, it's not the kind that over saturate the pizza with the usual ordinary quality ingredients. The main attraction here is the pizza bread which is wood fired to perfection, I can't even use words to descriibe it because it wouldn't do it justice. The combinatino of this traditional pizza bread with scrumptous sauces and fresh ingredients, the pizzas are to die for. If it wasn't for reasons to live a healtheir life I would be eating pizza from this restaurant every week.

What you have to keep in mind is that they are always busy, take aways times from order to pickup can be over an hour. I like to place my order in advance so that it will be ready when I go to pick up. But it is well worth the wait. It maybe not be everyone's idea of an Aussie pizza but it certainly is as close to an authentic Italian pizza as I have experienced in this area of the city.

The staffs and owners are always friendly and welcoming everytime I have visited this restaurant. The prices are not cheap but you really get what you pay for and thats artisan skills, care and love for their food. I hope after you read this you will have the chance to become a customer of this...

We dined here for Valentines Day 2023 with the $120pp set menu. The food itself was delicious and the wait staff were very friendly and accomodating. Oysters and cocktails served immediately were fine, entrees took about 30 minutes and were also tasty. However after that is where the trouble began, we waited 1h 30m for our first main (Prawn Pizza) to be served, the other main we ordered (Gnocci) didn’t arrive but was clearly included as it was ready 10 minutes later, where after 20 minutes we requested that Gnocci along with the desserts included to be packaged up to takeaway as it had been close to 2 hours at that point. When we arrived home and open the Gnocci up, it may have been the smallest serving we’ve ever seen, at most there was 10 pieces, which for an individual price of $30 is exorbitantly expensive. The overall value of the meal was very poor, the individual items added up cost less than $120. Overall, nice small venue, with friendly staff, but very poor timing of meals and value for money. Disappointing, because as locals we’d been wanting to try here for...