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• Pizza e Vino

  Matt Preston, Reviewer

  Monday, March 24, 2008

  Pizza e Vino is a good-looking space in a stripped-back Swedish sort of way.

  It's Sunday night in Hawksburn village's refined shopping strip and this big, bold new pizza joint from the Cafe Latte family is full of people perfect for Robin Leach's old show about the rich and famous. Their wishes might be for champagne and their dreams of caviar but the menu printed on paper placemats here is fast becoming a Melbourne cliche: the now-predictable artisan pizzeria rollcall of thin discs of dough topped with prosciutto and rocket, Italian sausage and, obviously, a simple smear of tomato sugo, mozzarella and a few basil leaves. Then a few antipasti such as carpaccio, a selection of cured meats or cheeses, and hot stuff such as arancini (fried rice balls) and fried calamari. At least salads of rocket and pear, and radicchio with gorgonzola, are more adventurous than a crowd-pleasing Caprese. Really, Pizza e Vino - like so many of these pizza places opening in the past year - brings little new to the table. Apart from, I suppose, their panzerotti. Now apparent...

  Source: The Age

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