If you love Ladro in Fitzroy then you are going to feel right at home at this latest venture by Rita Macali, famous for her superb pizza's, and husband Giovanni Patane whose front of house service is spot on. A-ah the pizza - thin crusted, simple but flavoursome toppings - delicious! Favourites include the GTV 105 - tomato base, grilled eggplant. oozingly good mozzarella, pesto and anchovies and the popular Strada Nova pizza- mozzarella, gorgonzola, pancetta and basil. A half litre carafe of well priced wine is the perfect complement to the superb food.
Thin crusted pizza with minimal yet perfectly blended toppings (think gorgonzola, mozzarella, pancetta and basil) prepared by super chef, Rita Macali, fly out of the bellissimo Italian electric pizza oven straight into the mouths of hungry diners. Having introduced us to how pizza should taste at Ladro, Micali and her front-of-house hubbie with a gift for hospitality, Giovani Pattane, have another Italian restaurant with superstar status on their hands.
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