Porto Azzurro — Restaurant in Sydney

Excellent food. Service was ok. Seating is in a courtyard style area (covered). Although the food was excellent, I've removed a star because of a strange experience at the restaurant. We asked for extra chilli for our pasta and pizza, and were given chilli oil and flakes (both very delicious). When I saw the bill, we had been charged $3 for it! Nowhere in the world have I been charged for a condiment! I brought this to the attention of the waitress (she could tell I was very annoyed), she explained it as something that has been recently introduced because "a lot of folks are asking for chilli these days and we've done this 6 months ago because chilli oil costs money." I mentioned that it's ludicrous to charge for a condiment and I'd surely be adding this to my review. Out came the manager in a bit with my $3 returned to me (I did pay the bill even though I made a fuss), and her explanation this time was that the charge was a total error by someone junior behind the cash register. Go figure! I don't know if we will be back (maybe just to see if the chilli incident happens again) because the food was...

We are regulars at this restaurant we come here almost every week. The consistency of good food and excellent service is astounding. I would however like to apologize to the owner and the staff for the disgusting behavior of the people seated behind us when we were there on Saturday night. The table of 6 behind us were rude, aggressive and totally condescending to the absolutely lovey young waiter who had the misfortune of having to serve them. He handled himself beautifully and with grace and calmness. Seriously I’m sick of seeing awful customers treating waiters and waitresses poorly. You horrid customers give the rest of us a bad name. Grow up. As for this restaurant keep it up you’re doing...

Food was OK. We had the stuffed Zucchini Flowers for entree. This is a dish I love, but only ok here. For main we had the King Prawn and Blue Swimmer Crab Linguine (Chefs special) which was quite nice. But with 3 prawns and no (visible) crab meat, and $38 for the dish, I'm thinking there's better value elsewhere. It's expensive for what you get, I'm afraid. In terms of the restaurant itself, it's a very casual sort of place, more of a Cafe than a restaurant really. Not bad, but not cheap and as I said, I think there's better value elsewhere. At $126 for two people, I'd rate it as expensive. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad by any means, I just think it's expensive for what you get,...