The Ormeggio Team Adds a Harbourside Pizza Joint to Its Stable This Month

The Pavonis are the Sydney-based couple behind Ormeggio, Chiosco and Cibaria north of the bridge, and Postino Osteria, Vineria Luisa and A’Mare to the south. There’s also Cibaria in Noosa, collectively forming Maestro Hospitality. Their Italian stable spans finer dining by the water, snacks and drinks in the inner west, holiday-charged vibes in Manly. And when Pizza’Mare opens within A’Mare, they’ll get their first pizzeria.

A lofted space within the Barangaroo dining room has new sunshine-yellow walls, adorned with bright prints in primary colours. The water views remain, but the energy is more casual, more fun, offering something different from the refined dining room downstairs.

Pizzaiolo Paolo Lacarpia captains the Mam pizza oven, which has travelled from Modena especially to fire his Neapolitan-esque rounds. Expect classics – saucy Napoletanas and lemony mortadella numbers – as well as signatures like the Amar’inara, where yellowfin tuna crudo joins stracciatella, sweet cherry tomatoes and lemon zest.

Lacarpia, who’s worked with dough since he started in Puglia kitchens at 14 years old, developed the menu together with executive chef Giuseppe Fuzio (ex-Ormeggio, Chiosco, Cibaria).

The Pizza’Mare pricing, like the vibe, is more relaxed than A’Mare’s – less special occasion, more drop-in-anytime. The polished tableside pesto service and whopping cotolettas remain downstairs, but the same care’s been given to the Pizza’Mare menu. Expect antipasti aplenty, house-made pasta (rigatoni slick with cacio e pepe, perhaps?) and dessert.

And if you’re looking for a snack and a spritz, the new little bar Vista’Mare is the seat you want. A dedicated Negroni list joins a spritz line-up that looks across the boot, with cicchetti (Venice’s answer to tapas) too. It’s all here in about two weeks, and bookings are open now.

Pizza’Mare and Vista’Mare open within A’Mare, 1 Barangaroo Avenue, Barangaroo, on Wednesday April 22. 

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