Restaurateur Rinaldo Di Stasio is back in the city with an extraordinary restaurant that blends high art, high drama and high cuisine.

Pasta backed by years of research and experience, plus exceptional customer service.

A fine-dining chef's handmade-pasta passion project.

Fresh, handmade pasta rolled from the best possible ingredients is the draw at this intimate osteria.

A modern take on the classic Italian enoteca, a 50-seat wine bar with house-made pasta, hard-to-find wines and waiters clad in head-to-toe white Japanese denim in an iconic heritage-listed building.

No list would be complete without this St Kilda institution.

After 19 years behind the counter at Pellegrini’s, Matt Picone opened this pasta bar dedicated to his late father.

Northern Italian fare in a dimly lit osteria.

All about that Moreton Bay bug spaghettini.

A tight list of hits from the same restaurateur behind Il Bacaro.

The seafood linguine has been a classic for years.

Dine on elegant dishes below a giant vista of the Italian countryside.

An easy CBD haunt based on a Northern Italian trattoria.

Neil Perry is just as competent at Italian as he is at other cuisines.

Where papperdelle, tagliatelle and risotto are second-nature.

A cosy room serving home-style Sicilian food with generosity and heart.

A cosy space, a compact menu, and a whole lot of heart.

Nods to a number of different areas of Italy.

Peruse the blackboard for always-changing specials with a focus on slow braises and seafood.

Pasta made fresh, twice a day.

An old-style Italian local.

Intimate and communal, like a real Italian restaurant should be.

A tiny, no-fuss space where the interior is older than you.

First, they started a wholesale pasta business. Then this restaurant.

A slick, contemporary interior meets Southern Italian diner.

After your meal, pop next door to the deli to try and reproduce the same quality at home.

This cosy, cellar-like restaurant is an old favourite with a sophisticated wine list and classic Italian cuisine.

Here to feed us traditional home-style pizza, pasta and all things Italian food and drink.

Look past the lengthy pizza list and choose a bowl of flavour.

A longstanding but largely unsung spot for Italian classics.

It's not particularly authentic, but this comfort food has stood the test of time.

The pasta here isn't show-stopping, but it's not trying to be. With pasta dishes ranging from $9 to $14, this Fitzroy North spot is affordable and punches well above its weight when it comes to atmosphere.

It hasn't changed in years, because it's never needed to.

A remnant of old Carlton that's thankfully never changed.