Ragazzi — Restaurant in Sydney

The food at Ragazzi Wine and Pasta highlights the simplicity of Italian cooking. Classic Italian dishes elevated to its best through strong leading flavours and perfect textures. The Cantabrian anchovy served on bed of butter and fresh sourdough was a great opening to the service. Fluffy, Salty and Smooth.

The Burrata served with roasted grapes, pine nuts and fried shallots was something not usually seen. when eaten together, the complex flavours highlight pops or Creamy, sweet, savoury and salty in one mouthful. Something unexpected and yet so enjoyed.

The Cacio e Pepe is what you wish every other Italian place could do. A perfect emulsion of cheese and starch. The complex use of cheese and pepper hits you followed by the textures from the pasta. The red Spanish pepper bring in a less harsh pepper taste which blends smoothly with the creamy texture of this dish. I would eat this again and again, and again and again! This was served with a leaf salad which is simple refreshing and sharp. A Perfect companion to a rich and velvety pasta dish.

The duck sausage trottole was unexpected and moreish. The sausage is made in house and is rich, fatty and yet not too heavy as it is spiced surprisingly with szechuan pepper. The sause is smooth and balanced and holds on to the trottole perfectly in every bite. This was served with a Ox heart tomato, peach, ricotta salata salad on the side. This was delicious however the peach was lost in the rich savoury tomato and ricotta when eaten together. although needed to create sweetness to the umami rich dish I feel adding a bit more peach will bring this out further. Maybe that opinion is just because I love stone fruit in salads.

Lastly the desserts. We had the blueberry, coconut and white chocolate tart. This tart was coconut forward in the first hit of flavour and mellowed in a smooth transition of blueberry towards the end of each bite. The panna cotta had a great wobble. Simple vanilla flavours pared with honeycomb and a hibiscus granita. The hibiscus granita was a perfect balance of icy, floral notes amplifying a sweet/tart pop to the Smooth creamy and vanilla packed panna cotta. The honeycomb is needed to complete the dish but I had trouble bringing this together in the dish and could see this in future served in smaller clumps.

As you can see I was chuffed with the food. But a shout out to the staff as well. The staff where non stop busy. Looked like an extra server would have helped but no matter how frantic they were we where served with constant and amazing service.

P.S. My photos don't do any justice to the deliciousness at this yummy establishment. (Including the finger shot in the...

Tried their set menu with my friend ($80/person), including three starters, 2 pastas and a dessert. The food in general is okay. Though the sauce of casarecce makes me wonder if the chef does not have enough experience to handle duck.

Service is a joke in this restaurant. We saw a couple of tables unattended for long, and the communication with the waiters was definitely not a pleasant experience. After going through other comments, it turns out their miserable service is not a news.

While going through old comments, I came across one explicitly expressed perceived discrimination against asian in this restaurant. My personal experience seconds this comment. Otherwise, I could not come up with a proper explanation for the behavior of the waiter who read out loudly and slowly from the menu with his finger pointing word-by-word through the sentence "chef decides what you eat", as a reply to our simple question: "what's in the set menu today".

In short, if you don’t mind to spare extra money for mediocre food and barbarous service, this is the right place for you.

In reply to the restaurant comments on their conclusion of misunderstanding after investigation:

First of all, good to know that you investigated the situation as it should be.

Secondly, I disagree with your investigation conclusion. By definition, discrimination refers to “the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation”. The behavior described in my original comment (i.e., reading out a sentence from menu loud and slow with finger pointing word-by-word) was not observed to happen to other races during our time course of dinner that night. That is, the waiter demonstrated a prejudicial behavior likely based upon our Asian appearance, which is discrimination.

For those who read till this point, please be kindly noted that I am not saying that other customers received a good service that night. Slow service was a norm in this restaurant. But on top of that, I perceived discrimination from this restaurant. Given my experience of living abroad over a decade world widely, I have confidence in my judgment on telling what’s misunderstanding and what’s...

Already been here for third time and i think it would be the last one we’re here and totally not back at all.

Me & my partner are pasta lovers. Whenever someone recommends good pasta restaurants we definitely will visit. My colleague recommends ragazzi to us as she said best pasta so far!

So here we are…

Just to be honest & realistic. We’re here for food and first focus should be food for sure.

We APPROVED that Ragazzi the best pasta restaurant we have so far! The way they cooked the pasta, the sauce, and the spices they put into the sauce, everything really brilliant and well blend! Nothing too much, nothing too overpowering.

No matter how hard it is to get booking into this restaurant, me & my partner always book 2 weeks in advance. As YEAH. IT WAS SUPER DELICIOUS.

The only problem here that we can’t tolerate at all is the service by one of their waiters. I dont want to point specifically which one is he. But i hope this restaurant can read and realise which one we mean as when i scrolled other reviews, there’s also few customers experiencing same things with me as we are asian 🙂

Im also hospitality workers & for sure you dont need anyone to teach you abt basic attitude. We not even finished our plates, he doesnt even ask “excuse me, can i take the plate?” Or even ask “are you done with this?” He just took our plate straight away. No hi, no thank you, nothing. Just kind of attitude.

Our next table are his own nationality customers as i heard he said it to them & give them 100% best service. Explaining all the menu, offering this and that. Smiling, cheering, everything.

I dont actually really care at all but it just seems very rude to us & no attitude to just took our plate without asking. IT IS BASIC ATTITUDE BRUH 😊

Once again, food really good and best. That’s why i keep it on 3 stars. But service very bad by this man and i think would very affected to your restaurant.

If you guys doesn’t bother to get bad service. Nothing wrong to come and try ragazzi.

But for us. definitely not back 🙂 i dont want to eat and feel scared someone gonna steal my plate quickly. 😭🤣

I left few pictures as prove that we been here many...