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160 Victoria St
SEDDON, VIC, 3011
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Delizia Cucina

John Lethlean, Reviewer

Monday, June 04, 2007

Adventurous and stylish with real substance.

It's not much of a view. To relax on the high-backed black banquette that lines an entire flank of Delizia's cute dining room and look out the window to the street is to better appreciate what you have close at hand. Victoria Street, Seddon, is a bland thoroughfare - pretty much devoid of interesting foot traffic in the middle of a May Tuesday - and the immediate built environment represents some of Australian residential architecture's lower points. Which only shines a more concentrated light on the gem that is Delizia, a nugget of Australian/Italian style among the gravel of South Footscray (or North Yarraville, take your pick). For anyone excited by food and wine, standing on the street and looking in at the little provisions store, the substantial kitchen and the casual-yet-elegant dining room are all the view they will need. Delizia sends all the right messages. And, as we all know, you can't eat a view. Like a cafe with elegant tailoring, the restaurant - which has be...
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Delizia Cucina

Dani Valent, Reviewer

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The service is excellent, full of sass and wit. The room is smart, but easy to be in.

Not so long ago, I was standing in a backyard in Footscray at the tail end of an afternoon garden party. As the guests meandered to the front gate, a short guy asked a tall guy what he was doing that evening. "Delizia," said the tall guy. The D-word was a cue for the dissipating throng to halt, gather and break out in a 10-part harmony of "yum". Some chimed in with descants: "I love that place" and "Don't fill up on bread - it's too good!" and "Have the calamari or you're crazy." Naturally, I followed this chorus of yums to its logical climax: dinner. I was impressed. The food is lively and arresting. It owes a lot to Italy, but Arabian flavours sing loud. There's tortellini and polenta and kangaroo carpaccio, but there's also cardamom and pomegranate molasses and brik pastry. The service is excellent, full of sass and wit. The room is smart, but easy to be in. The wine list is enthusiastic and appropriate with the occasional pithy tasting note and a preponderance of bottles a...
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Delizia

John Lethlean, Reviewer

Friday, July 27, 2007

Inventive and slightly quirky, Delizia brings a clever mix of modern ideas to Seddon.

There's this funny thing going on with a big old honey tin, and half the people in the restaurant are watching it. It's a packed Saturday night at Delizia, halfway between groovy Yarraville and groovy-any-minute-now Footscray and the tin sits on a shelf above the serving area of the kitchen, or "pass" as it's known in the trade. A string on the tin passes through a little pulley and disappears out of sight towards the back of the restaurant. The tin goes up, suspended from the string; the tin goes down. And between sips of wine and nibbles on house-made caraway epis, the lucky diners at Delizia - well half of them, anyway - spend a little time speculating on the meaning of the tin. The curious will actually get up and see that the string leads to a door, which in turn leads to the bathrooms. When the door is opened, the tin goes up; and when it closes, down it comes. It's a sand-filled counterweight attached to the door and talking point all in one. Delizia occupies a site on Vic...
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