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

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!

Stopped by Papadino's whilst having a day in the Blue Mountains…read more Was with my youngest son (10) so we had pizza and it was very nice. Food was good, tasty and enjoyed in the cold weather. Place was packed - very busy and so service was a little slow (apart from drinks). Would defiantly go back for another visit as it really offered traditional and authentic Italian style menu items. Overall, I did enjoy the visit and would recommend for anyone looking for great Italian whilst in Katoomba...

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!

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.

Sittano's is the place to go for Italian food. they make their pasta on site and it is literally…read morethe best pasta you will ever have anywhere outside of Italy. although a bit pricey, you are definitely getting what you pay for and the owners and staff are extremely nice and attentive. definitely need to make a booking a day or two before in weekends though.

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

This place is great. Good place to pick up or order food. A lot of food options. In addition, this…read moreplace has a great view. Had the Eggplant Parm and baguette. Good service.

Both dishes are only ok. The pie is a bit blend and the chicken is too dry. The steak sandwich is a…read morebit too overcooked. But the bread was very good and the pastry puff part of the pie was good. Flat white was ok. Good view

The restaurant has new management and with it a vibrant new larger menu and the quality has gone…read morefrom great to fantastic I highly recommend trying the garlic and pepper duck stir fry it is in portion size and flavour unbeatable

Great food excellent my favourite place by far always make time to come eat at least weekly here…read moreextremely fresh and flavoursome

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.

There are literally only 8 things on the menu (which based on prior reviews changes). It's such an…read moreingenious idea to offer different palate options, suitable for conflicting groups. The key here, is that they do each dish well and there's not just one specific focus or specialty. Mexican tacos Lamb shoulder, refried beans, red cabbage, corn tortilla, mint yogurt and hot sauce. With lime. Can get a bit messy and the plate wasn't wide enough to prevent some liquid leakage. Love the yogurt and hot sauce pairing, which really characterizes the dish because the lamb, while juicy, doesn't carry much flavor on its own. Katoomba fried chicken KFC Marinated thighs, cabbage slaw, wasabi mayo, allspice and lime. Nice big bowl of zesty slaw - the chicken is average, hard fried. Not bone-in. Singapore Laksa Rice noodles, prawns, boiled egg, fish cake, tofu puffs, bean sprouts and coriander. Easily the best of the lot, particularly on a cold and gloomy day. Theres so much action going on here - fresh plump shrimp, diverse textures and flavors as well has a tummy quenching broth. Some takeaways for no bathrooms and you have to bus your own dishes. That's all.

Look very surprising eight things on the menu had a hamburger and a lamb tacos and they are both…read moreoutstanding the hamburger has smoked cheese and the tacos have very well cooked lamb both absolutely delicious I wouldn't miss it for the world they don't serve alcohol but they are a bring your own bottle place