This place wins for everything. It is right next to the Katoomba station and while it looks…read moreunassuming from the outside, it is a nice little place with lots of interesting people. There are many tourists who stop in after their visit to the Blue Mountains, so I noticed there were people of all nationalities. The service is a little confusing; you need to read the first page of the clipboard menu. But the gist is, you wall up to the bar and order/pay, and someone will bring your food to the table. The staff member helping me was totally awesome, and I could tell he really enjoyed being around international visitors. The pizza was good. And even more delicious since I had spent the last 3 hours hiking in the rain. I stuck to a more basic pizza (tomatoes bruschetta with goat cheese) but if given the opportunity, I will try one of the more adventurous ones!

Loved this place! Friendly folks but esp Summer who went above and beyond to assist us. We ordered…read more2 pizzas: Lawson and Leura plus the rocquette salad. All of it was delicious. They have cocktails, draft beer and wine to wash down the pizza. My Sauvignon blanc was great but husband got a lager that was made locally. All their pizzas are named for the local towns.

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!

So quaint in the little town of Leura. Just mins walk from the train station that takes you to…read moreThree sisters and the Blue Mountains. Service was very OZ. Cheerful and campy. Pizza was expensive, but very tasty. Atmosphere was eclectic and charming.

This is an amazing place - I came here for lunch after visiting the Blue Mountains and got here…read morejust in time before people started getting told that they would have to wait to get a seat. Service was fast, although we had to wait a little for the food to arrive. I love that the food arrived at the same time, and they looked spectacular. I would personally highly recommend the Calamari and the Sausages, but saw a lot of people having the pizza as well. All in all a fantastic meal and I'm leaving satisified

After spending the morning in Blue Mountains National Park, I definitely needed a good meal before…read moreheading home. This place is very close to Katoomba station so it was a convenient choice. There's seating on two floors, but you'll have to order your food and drinks at the bar first. That's also where you'll get your utensils and condiments. It's warm inside with a very cozy vibe. The food took a little while to get out but it tasted pretty good. Pricing is pretty fair too.

Good beer selection, amazing deep fried wings with delicious dipping sauce. Definitely recommend!read more

Ordered over the phone as I couldn't get their website to work on my phone or tablet. Order process…read morewas easy & friendly. Prices were. Good. Pizza arrived on time and was great! Recommend it.

Let's face it, if you want "proper" then head up to Rene's up the top of town near the station…read more Domino's is that kind of go-to staple like VB and Winnie Blues, you know, like when you're 12 trying to adult or when you're a broke uni student or recently born-again 20-something Tinder-failed bachelor. But if you look beyond the caricature of such low-brow rites of Aussie adolescent passage, and if you now have kids who, damn it, have friends who hang around like the flatulence in grannie's nursing home dining room, Domino's is actually a pretty economical way to get some good tucker. The kids can have the basic pizzas. Old farts like me with gastric sleeves reducing their stomach pouch to the size of a 20 cent coin can get the thin and crispy base so we don't overeat in dough, and allergies are catered for saving the epi pen for another day. Yeah, put aside the old associations with Winni Blues and VB. Just a warning: Katoomba's addressing system sucks. Their drivers are mostly kids. Don't put them through the game of "find my difficult address". Send the missus up to get pick up. By sending her you can keep on chugging your Crownies you've graduated to and you don't have to see the kitchen... it's not at all bad, but like sausages, these pizzas are best seen complete and not being made. But still tip the driver. She/he/non-binary shouldn't suffer because you picked up.

A successful Australian take on French classics with only occasional false notes…read more The rhubarb and apple turnovers are the stars; the high price intrigued me for a pastry this small but the balance of sweet, sour, bitter, the sugary crust and the layers of buttered pastry simply worked so well that I had to come back the next day and buy more. The apple pie was similarly well realised, with just enough sugar to balance out the acidity in sufficiently sour apples to set off the pastry. Again this perfect sugar crust. The peach danish was also a hit. The (wholemeal sourdough) bread is somewhat less successful in the sense that the bubble network is too dense, the bubbles too small; as a part time amateur boulanger I know just how hard it is to get this right, and at least they are evenly distributed and the salt is correct with a well caramelised crust. The pain au chocolat is perhaps on the level of a second quartile boulangerie in France, the same chocolate is used as the mass market ones there but the boulanger has chosen a lighter style than the heavy butter bombs that represent the best examples back home; similarly the egg glaze is not particularly shiny or present which is another missed opportunity for a Proustian madeleine for us frogs far from the pond. This is not a bad thing though, as you can enjoy more pastries in one go. The cookie was not really a cookie, more like a "sable" - a biscuit hard throughout. The addition of hazelnut is a difficult one, as it makes the texture crumblier and drier, less held together than a normal chocolate cookie would be. Finally, the churros reminded me of a stretched out canelé which is a very good thing indeed. It does mean quite soft, custardy innards which may be unexpected to those used to normal churros. I haven't tried the rest of the selection but appreciate their choice to focus on best selling, safe, classic items rather than do wild experimentation leaving half the stock unsold on the shelves and forcing the customer to think a bit more before trying something new.

Hominy bakery can be found at the bottom end of the shopping strip on Katoomba street. The small…read morelittle store is your old school type stuff with a different loaf special daily. Their specialty is a loaf using potato in the sourdough mix. The bakery also sells full sized cakes, slices, foccacia, danishes and more. I love how all the product signs have handwritten names on them, showing care for all that they do. The sandwiches look amazing too! Grab a cookie with the soft centre, apple turnover or a lemon curd and pistachio snail! Put it on your Katoomba visit list.

This pizza shop is a decent spot for a pizza and is incredibly popular with locals and tourists…read morealike. On weekends you definitely can't simply walk in and get a table and even during the week the place is usually packed. There's a decent range of modern and traditional pizzas and I particularly enjoy the Greco. Prices are a little on the steep side, but you can't blame the shop because they're always full despite the prices. If you want pizza here, make a booking and you'll be right.

Great food, good sign was they were flat out @ 7PM on 3rd Sep 2016, photo I took was from the back…read morelooking to the front entry door so a little small but there is an upstairs seating area. Good quality eating, a little expensive but well worth the money and the wait.

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.