I've been here a few times. We have been lucky but it can be tough to get a seat. Service can be…read moreslow at times. The food is awesome! They are BYO so that makes it easier!

We were hungry after a full day of exploring the Blue Mountains so we stopped in Katoomba for a…read morebite to eat. We dropped in on an early Sunday evening (around 6:30pm) to find a busy, lively restaurant. There's a couple tables outside to sit at but they were all taken. A bit odd that you order at the counter and pay right away when there are servers working. Note: they charge 10% weekend and public holiday surcharge. The menu is quite large with options of fresh bread, salad, soup, entree, crépes, pasta, from the oven, meats (beef, steaks and chicken), risotto, pizza and desserts. Pizzas come in three sizes ($14.00 AUD small, $18.00 AUD medium and $26.00 AUD family). - Caesar salad ($17.80 AUD) - cos lettuce, anchovies, bacon and croutons in a creamy dressing. The croutons are not your normal croutons. They were like stale puffed pieces of bread. Anchovies was the best part of this salad but it's a pretty meagre portion. Way overpriced for what you get. - Macho supreme ($18.00 AUD medium) - ham, prawns, bacon, pineapple, cabanossi, mushrooms, onion, capsicum, anchovies, olives and oregano. A medium is 11" and you get 8 pieces total. The pizza looks a bit small for a medium but it was enough to satiate the two of us. The thickness of the slices was satisfying and had a good crust to it too. My favourite part was the prawns. Will have to try the pasta next time and forgo being healthy ordering salad. Pizza won't blow you away but it's above average.

Went here for the first time on Saturday night. Had not been here since it was called Danny's on…read moreHigh and back then, was a regular customer up to once a week. Came with an open mind for something new. The premises is refurbished, great selection on the menu and staff were efficient. The food was great. Had the Gnocchi Pesto and was the best I've tasted since I was in Italy back in April. Very good establishment and plan to go back one day.

Love this place. The food, the atmosphere and the Service. I love the food full of flavors. The…read moreprice is good, not so pricey. The staff are always attentive and friendly and most of all know how to smile and make you feel welcomed. I highly reccomend this place for families and couples. Keep up the good work guys....as you will have a life long customer.

Awesome pizzas, proper Italian pizza and pasta made by Italian family that have excellent quality…read moreof food and lovely people!! Deservedly a 5 star food and service!

This is my go to takeaway on Friday night I always get the…read moreham, cheese and pineapple pizza and the garlic bread also the taste is so delicious that it is unexplainable I totally recommend this place

Food was very good enjoyed it very much especially the burger was delicious thank you so much for…read moresucha marolous dinner

Our group went here for supper on a Monday evening and were happy to find this one open. They have…read morea huge menu with many options. The food was very good, but a bit on the expensive side. I ordered the saffron chicken and prawns and it was delightful. We got our meals in a timely manner. Our friends ordered a sundae to share for dessert. It was beautiful and huge! The restaurant was clean and neatly organized.

This hidden local gem is a perfect stop halfway from the Blue Mountains and Sydney. Pizza Rocco is…read morea family owned business with two brothers and their mom for 14 years. We had to try the pizza as their name indicates. The pizza dough tastes good and the thin crust is not too crispy and not too flimsy. The toppings are enough to cover the pizza with ample cheese, just the right amount. We had the Antonio pizza and a ham and cheese pizza for the kids. They ate it up! We started our meal with Garlic Mozzarella Crust. No dipping sauce needed for this as the cheese and garlic flavor was enough. So good! The Sizzling Prawns were cooked in a small metal skillet and served with a size of bread (see pic). The sauce isn't the typical marinara sauce. This was homemade and it's obvious. The sauce was full of flavor, thick but not creamy, and complimented the prawns well without being overpowering with an acidic tomato flavor. Perfectly balanced. We would have tried dessert but we were full. Not heavy greasy type of full, not at all. The food is rich in flavor. Two pizzas and two appetizers were enough for my family of 5 which include 3 men. Stop by Pizza Rocco for a friendly local welcome and good food. The staff and owners themselves were so welcoming and friendly. We saw local after local coming in for take out. That's a good sign.

The food has always been great but the new menu is even better. Traditional Italian food cooked to…read morefamily recipes. Often you'll find various members of Rocco's family helping out in the kitchen. The calzones are well worth a try, the use of traditional Italian ingredients like Gorgonzola and prosciutto mixed with their own sauce recipe is exceptional. The only negative I've found is that the restaurant is not big enough, so if you want to eat in and don't make a booking you might have to wait a while. I eat at Rocco's regularly and have not experienced any bad service yet.

Near constant attention/interruptions by the wait staff. They definitely need to improve…read morecommunication there. Asked regularly about drinks, meal orders etc even after we had already placed them. The food though, I can't remember the last time I had pasta that good. The cheesecake was the best I've ever had, too. Well worth it for a fine night out.

My wife and I dined at Restaurant Trivi on Saturday March 11, it was our 28th wedding anniversary…read more We ordered a glass of sparking wine to celebrate when the waitress returned she said it was complementary. The food we ordered was excellent and the service faultless and friendly. We have been to Trevi on a number of occasions over the years. we felt the service and food was not as good as it was when it first opened. Recently a friend and her husband dined there nd loved it . We loved it too and the price was a pleasant surplice We will definably be back.

My new favourite place to eat in the mountains! I have to admit, I was pretty excited to see…read moreunwavering 5/5 yelp reviews, and all I can say is that they are well deserved! This little restaurant is located on Lurline St in Katoomba. It's recently started doing lunch on Fridays and Saturdays (from 11:30am), which is when we went. We started off by having the freshly baked Pinenut and Rosemary bread. For our entree we split a serve of the Scallops ($18) which were amazing. We could not fathom how they managed to get scallops so right, when they are located so far from the sea... but trust me, they did. For mains I had the Pork Belly ($32). This was based on a previous Yelp review and I'm so happy I ordered it. It was perfection. I'm drooling at my keyboarding thinking about it. My wife had the Crispy Skin Salmon ($29.50) which was cooked to perfection. Salmon cooked this way is not an easy thing to get just right... but they did it. We also ordered a side of Chat potatoes ($9) because who can resist roast potatoes cooked in duck fat? They were great, lots of flavour. I highly recommend that everyone looking for a place to eat in Katoomba (or the mountains) makes the effort to come have a meal here. It was a highlight of our weekend away, and we will be back (many times!).

This is the no. 1 restaurant in the Blue Mountains on another famous travel site, and the rainy…read moreweeknight we visited, the place had a full house. I was wondering why as the food did not seem as sophisticated on photos as, say, Garage or Solitary. I got my answer alright. Basically, and despite the website's claims to Italian-Japanese fusion, the cooking style is pre-nouvelle-cuisine French ("cuisine bourgeoise" as Houellebecq might call it) as "preserved" by the Japanese; that is, a style that is easy to find in Japan but almost inexistent in France these days, except in the homes of old (bourgeois) families where the tradition is passed down. Like mine - grandma is a Colonel's wife, and spent her life perfecting her skills in the matter, as she needed to feed 8 children. Of course, this old style of cooking with elaborate sauces at the centre of rich dishes is very tasty and tends to be well received by just about anybody in the dining public, and here it is done well with excellent Australian ingredients, so no wonder this place rates so highly. It also happens to be easy to screw up, which is why few places outside Japan (which has insane quality standards and perfectionist chefs) still do it, so it's a testimony to how well Pins' kitchen is run that they can do this kind of thing so reliably. My fillet was an inch thick and very wide, nicely scorched on both sides yet medium rare in the middle. The Diane sauce, made with brandy, tomatoes, peppercorns, mushrooms and cream (I'm guessing; could have been butter) was rich and wonderful, a true expression of a style of cooking I rarely get to enjoy these days, that you might have found in the auberges in the countryside before cheaper and simpler "put some leaves on top of a bit of meat" took over the Western world, ironically (as the Japanese are now custodians of cuisine classique) thanks to the influence Japanese kaiseki-ryori had on Bocuse, Troisgros etc. - in fact I don't think I've ever had a Diane sauce this good. The duck fat roasted potatoes tasted like exactly like their name suggested: dense, well cooked, ummami like there was no tomorrow. The garlic prawn spaghetti were not, as might have been expected in Australia, spaghetti and prawns tossed in olive oil in which garlic was fried. Instead, again came a cream and tomato based sauce, this time with complexity added by lightly fried leeks (genius! I'm borrowing this one for home) and of course the large prawns and al dente (!) linguine (not spaghetti, but I think that's an improvement). Dessert (pictured) was the Bombe Alaska. Ever since watching the final scene with Mr Wint and Mr Kidd in Diamonds are Forever I've wanted to order this, but nobody ever offers it on their menu. Well again, we find the cuisine bourgeoise impeccably executed; the macaroon had the perfect texture, easily breaking apart under the fork but retaining its chewiness under the tooth; the textures moving from hard (macaroon) to soft (meringue) as you move up, yet belonging to the same family of flavours (roasted sugars). It was rich, and we were already full, but we still managed to eat most of it. The wine list was fairly simple, in that everything was $7.50 a glass. I only had a glass of desert wine, but it was predictably both excellent and a good match for the dessert and the style. Service was, of course, excellent. The interior is a work of art, a balance between delicate artworks worthy of fine dining establishments and the level of comfort one expects of one's local. I am very inexperienced in my understanding of Japanese art, but I think I saw some artworks in the style of the Rinpa school; perfectly appropriate, philosophically, to the food presented, in tying it with a period characterized by a shift from the Spartan minimalism of the early Edo period towards hedonistic decadence and a tendency by the daimyo ruling class to start imitating the Japanese bourgeois merchant class... Quick mention of the garden which is well kept and with many Japanese elements (such as the gravel path and round bushes). I have to confess to having had food poisoning on the day BEFORE coming to Pins; I thus arrived utterly not hungry, still going for it mostly not to waste our long drive and hotel night and give my wife a nice date night. Yet, the food was so well made and comforting that I couldn't help but finish all the dishes and still order dessert. This place absolutely deserves its reputation and we will probably return for our next trip. It's the kind of restaurant where one wants to try everything on the menu, because it is probably the product of long years of work iterating towards perfection and so everything will be a hit. Do watch out for the 2% credit card charge - bring cash.

One of the best pizza joints in the general area. Pizza is always high quality and very cheap for…read morewhat you get. If you order on Wednesdays there's a deal for four pizzas for thirty dollars pickup, and their margarita pizzas are the best around.