Tutto Bene which means okay is more than an okay restaurant. Located on level one of Southgate Shopping Complex, it is situated facing the Yarra River. Hence, you can bask in the sun when seated outdoors or sit inside to escape the winds of Melbourne. They offer a $40 set menu which includes two course (starter and plat principal) and a glass of wine (red or white) or a coffee. My friend got the two-course menu while I decided to go for squid ink calamari risotto. We were provided with complimentary delicious sourdough bread with olive oil and olives. Staff are friendly but slow. Though our drinks came out quickly - my coffee was very bitter and strong but acidic tasting, our food took forever to come out - and it was a lunchtime and the restaurant was only one-third full. The stuffed calamari with risotto looked like a polish dumpling with a fresh basil flavour and was quite salty. The potato gnocchi had a beautiful rosemary flavour, a subtle sweetness, and the truffle and mushrooms only added to the flavour. However, the winner was the calamari risotto - just the right amount of kick to it with freshly chopped chilli and chilli oil, beautifully separated risotto rice (not the mushy rice you get in some restaurants) and small bits of calamari. It could definitely do with more calamari which was barely there. The food was well salted and flavoured. Portion sizes are small compared to most pasta places so best to get a starter if you're very hungry. Would definitely come back to try other dishes. read more

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A wonderful experience!! The venue overlooking busy Southbank and the Yarra River is a great place to watch the world go by!! My friend had the lunch special of the day - a delicious beetroot risotto- the colour of which was a divine shade of pink. This was great value at $ dollars which included a glass of wine! I selected from the starters. The carrot arancini came looking spectacular , in the shape of s carrot with its own carrot greenery and sitting in a bed of creamy mashed carrot. My other choice was watermelon wrapped squares wrapped in prosciutto. The presentation was divine looking almost too good to eat. The choice of wine was a Seville Rose from the Yarra Valley which was the perfect accompaniment to our lunchtime food choices. Attentive staff were friendly and the service provided was excellent. Can thoroughly recommend this venue. read more

Tutto Bene - My lovely lunch - Italian Near Me - Melbourne, VIC

Wonderful place.. amazing italian food.. We opted for the set menu as we were too many.. everything was too good .. Meatballs were to die for.. charcoal grilled chicken was fantastic. The price is a bit more but thats what you pay for good location and good food. Definitely reccommend. read more

Tutto Bene - Chocolate rissoto.. - Italian Near Me - Melbourne, VIC

Great happy hour from 3:30 to 5:30! We shared the carrots, arugula or rocket salad and the amazing risotto comprised of saffron and braised beef. Shiraz on HH menu was really good too. read more

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Very impressive Italian restaurant. They were very accommodating for us going to a show and served accordingly. Great Italian music playing in the background. I felt like I was back in Italy. Got the pulled beef with Gorgonzola and the lobster spaghetti. Amazing flavors but pricey. read more

Tutto Bene - Spaghetti with lobster and tomato - Italian Near Me - Melbourne, VIC

Came here for Valentine's, and sat down to a set menu. Staff was very friendly, it's a tiny restaurant, but our waitress made sure we were happy with everything. The food was delish, Anatra arrosto (duck breast) and Agnello (lamb rump), and filled us up so we only took a gander at the selection of gelato they have available. My only complaint was the time it took to get our main, it felt like we were sitting for ages, and even while enjoying good company and conversation, you notice the time tick away as you wait for your food to come. Other than that, it was a nice restaurant to visit. read more

Tutto Bene - Antipasti: selection of cured meat, vegetable & seafood served in traditional Italian style - Italian Near Me - Melbourne, VIC

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Being our first time to Melbourne I must admit I was overwhelmed with the endless options of restaurants . After a long flight from California I felt a bit of pressure to make sure every restaurant I chose did not disappoint and this restaurant was on point. I would describe the food as Italian with a modern Australian twist. The staff was helpful and professional, it seemed like a third were Italian so that made the dinning experience more memorable. The view at night from the second floor balcony overlooking the Yarra river and the Melbourne skyline is breathtaking. Oh yeah about the food... It was excellent, the fish of the day was cooked perfectly and the tomato based sauce had an intriguing spice to it. My only complaint is that the portions were a bit small, except for the fish. I couldn't help but notice everyone around us seemed to be in a bliss enjoying their dinning experience which gave me further confirmation that I had made the right choice. read more

A nice restaurant with nice food but when they have a near empty restaurant and they still seat you outside in a very noisy area next to the bar next door, you know you're not coming back anytime soon. And then blame it on the accountants who booked the bar. No consideration for their own customers. Food not bad - chicken liver pate, chicken ragu and pumping risotto. Chianti was probably the best part of the evening. read more

The food was absolutely disgusting. Great views and location and service welcoming dont fall for that though. My dog could not have eaten what was served up to us. Very very disappointing. read more

This must be on anyones list of must visit restaurants if your looking for the most amazing italian meal on a truly icon location in Melbourne. Last week I had the pleasure of dinning here for a long lunch. I can only summaries the experience by little categories so to ensure you get the most of my review Location: Right in the heart of Southbank, second floor, does it get much better! View: Absolutely amazing, we had the prefect table for two looking across the river with the Melbourne CBD backdrop in all its glory. I thought maybe we just got lucky, but having walked into the restaurant and along the outside dining balcony throughout the afternoon, I don't think any table would be without a truly magnificent view. Food: Incredible. No real better Italian in my opinion in Southbank. Entree: Aged Prosciutto Plate - Some of the best i have ever tasted, and as a lover I have eaten many over the years. Served with breadsticks, hard cheese, my only complaint, it was a shame it ended - Great size serving though Olives - Stuffed and deep fried, a taste explosion every time you put one in your mouth, again good serving size Main: Veal - Two perfect cutlets, cooked to perfection, with fresh tomatoes and soft cheese. It was a special that day, but if you see it on the menu, do not hesitate to order it, I would! Pasta - Perfect, you know when pasta just works, there is nothing better, these guys know and respect the pasta they serve. Atmosphere: Like your sitting in a small restaurant in Italy, made authentic from the passionate italian staff who wait on you like your some millionaire. Service: Spot on, nothing is too hard, fine attention to detail, and very friendly, they really love what they do, and they love the restaurant and its customers, nothing short of perfect. Take home: They use their own oil for bread, cooking and its that good you can buy yourself a bottle on the way out, great idea, if your into fresh oil, buy one, my only regret is I did not buy too Overall, be it a business lunch, romantic lunch or dinner, this is the place to eat. I am not a fan of visiting restaurants on my own, I travel allot with work and hide in the hotel with all the other one leg travellers, but i would be seen eating here alone for sure. Super impressed, and will visit time and time again at any opportunity I can get. Thanks Tutto Bene read more

Tutto Bene is a beautiful little Italian restauarant with stunning views over the Yarra river, Flinders st Station and the gorgeous Melbourne CBD skyline. Its a traditional Italian eatery, that serves delicious bowls of pasta, risotto and other hearty fare. To be honest, I cant really pronounce anything on the menu, but my waiter was very helpful in describing alot of the dishes to me. The risotto I chose, the Anatra, funghi e salvia ( which translates to braised duck, porcini mushroom and sage, according to the menu) was delicious. The flavours were rich, and the light sauce was very tasty. Tutto Bene also has an attached gelateria with amazing ice creams and sorbets. The gelato is available as a dessert within the restaurant, as well as from a seperate counter available from outside the restaurant. This is serious ice cream. It is award winning icecream, with seasonal flavours like pear, grape, and chestnut. My personal favourite? The tiramasu!! read more

Tutto Bene - Italian Near Me - Melbourne, VIC

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Location - Convenient being on southbank View - Spectacular. Look at the yarra, litup Melbourne skyline while having your dinner Food - To die for. It was recommended to me as one of the best risotto place in Melbourne and I couldn't find anything to contest it. Service - Awesome. Love the staff. Love the fact that they served us Gelato even though they were closing as we took our own time finishing up the dinner. Major selling point for me - Gelato. I think they need to have a face-off with 7apples. One of the places where I would go again and again. read more

Good Italian restaurants in Melbourne: Tutto Bene can claim they are part of this choice group according to me! I had a delicious risotto laced with crab and such amazing flavor! The appetizers were fresh and delicious --- the chat potatoes are to die for!! The size of the order was large so I wanted to take some home --- nope, no takeaway containers --- hmmm. Service was lacking as well and with improvements, this establishment will be vying for the five star designation. read more

Not bad at all. I had the duck for the mains and it was roasted crisp, perhaps a bit dry but nice nonetheless with the jus. The tossed cos lettuce that is freely provided is a bit of a joke though as you get 3 mini lettuce leaves which you would down in a heartbeat. Recommend ordering a side salad as this would not suffice for any form of sufficient fibre with your meal. The triple cooked potatoes - not sure how the other reviewer said there was no taste - but it actually was too salty for me. Lots of grated parmesan and pepper evenly mixed in the potatoes. The portion size is also quite fair IMO. The panna cotta however, was excellent. Smooth, light, melts in your mouth with a light coconut flavour. The berries and mint cut the sweetness just right. read more

I have not been inside this restaurant but I have been just out the front of it where they have an adjoining Italian Gelataria. They have here the best gelato that I have had in the southern hemisphere. The flavours are always changing so it would not be fair of me to recommend a flavour as it might not be there when you arrive. This aside every flavour that you chose will have you making noises of satisfaction that you did not even know you could make. Something else that I love about Tutto Bene is the location, set just one level about Southbank you have a stunning view of Melbourne that most people would not stop and look at. read more

Tutto Bene - Italian Near Me - Melbourne, VIC

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We had dinner here recently. A hidden Italian treasure! The best risotto I've ever had, with a stunning wine (recommended by our waitress) to match. The entrees and a simple fresh Cos salad were perfect. Loved it. The staff were really friendly and helpful too. We sat outside to enjoy the view, and the restaurant is upstairs away from the passing crowd. Definitely worth returning to! read more

STAY AWAY FROM THIS RESTAURANT!!! Ever since this restaurant reopened it has descended from being one of Melbourne's top Italian restaurants to an absolute disaster! The wait for the food was not only huge but when we pointed this fact out to our darling waitress she simply dismissed and even argued with us about it only being 30 minutes. Even when the food finally did arrive it was nothing special. 1 star is an overstatement! read more

Had a really delicious and quick pre theatre meal here one Saturday night. Ordered off the cheaper pre theatre menu, but service, food and extras were fantastic. Got bread and olives pre meal and no problem when we requested extra bread. Service was friendly and one of the best risotto and gnocchi dishes we have ever had. Highly recommend. read more

Tutto Bene - Delicious gnocchi - Italian Near Me - Melbourne, VIC

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Heard so much about this place "specialising" in risotto and many great reviews as well. So we drove all the way into the cbd and excited about what I'm going to get. Very nice location at the river bank, over looking the river and city lights. I love the decor as well. Staff were very friendly and helpful. We very quickly decided on our meal- all recommended by their staff. Excitement very quickly turn into disappointment. Risotto: very small potion, seriously small with no decoration on it. Just a very big plate with small potion of risotto in the middle. Let's taste it anyway. Um... Excuse me, I think it's under cooked. Crunchy rice and I couldn't find my crab meat. Flavour was average too. Man, I can make better risotto than this. I returned the dish to be re-fried, staff were very friendly and tried to explain to me it's the rice they use. Thanks but no thank you, I just want a nice cooked risotto. Also, I'm not a big fan of their popular triple cooked potato either, it was either dry and soft or very dry and crunchy and lack of flavour too, can you sprinkle just a little bit more salt on it would be nice. Let down. Not going back there again. read more

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Very disappointing return to one of our former favourite restaurants. The food was extremely ordinary. A sad fall from the previous heights. And the waitress topped it off with "youse finished" - bogan service and suburban quality food. A humbling fall. read more

We were very happy. Lunch menu with 2 courses, wine and coffee or tea for 40$ made us smile when we got the first course (pumpkin ravioli with shaved parmesan and sliced toasted almond sauce) that was delicious. Second courses were solid too (gnocchi and scallop risotto) but not as spectacular. Great deal! read more

Quick friendly service. One of the few places I have tasted al dente pasta!!!

Great food, great staff, great atmosphere! Particularly enjoyed the white chocolate semifreddo with raspberries for dessert. Yummo!

Although pricy, Food is fantastic, I'm rating 3 stars because of the poor and ridiculously slow service. Beer was hot, which to me is unacceptable. read more

This was easily the worst Italian or any other restaurant I've been to for many a year. The gnocchi was soggy and the sauce tasted like it came from a tin! Also it was very very small! The meals my friends had were no better. They also told me they had vegan options (I went in in person to make sure before we booked) but had NOTHING at all when we ordered. Highly inflated prices, crap food and bad service. I will never go there again!! read more

Fabulous meal and great service. The salad, spaghettini and lemon tart were all fabulous, as was my husband's meal of zucchini blossoms, eggplant chips and tiramisu. We were seated by a window and so could look out at the Yarrow river. The servers were attentive and made great suggestions. Would definitely return. read more

It takes a great deal of disappointment for me to write a review and I was exceptionally disappointed with the dining experience. Also I never write on Facebook but feel obligated to share this bad dining experience.I just had and am really hoping that by going public, this restaurant will decide that it needs to perform better. I was a regular visitor to Tutto Bene before it was renovated. SInce it re-opened it is a different restaurant and I won't be going back. It started badly as we were placed on an outside table which was very noisy and freezing (in summer!) and the heaters weren't on. We asked to move tables and were told we couldn't. We debated leaving but very regretfully decided to stay and the experience went downhill from there and its a long list: 1. The restaurant is now very open, with hard floors and much noiser than it was. The warm intimacy and closeness of the tables has gone. They have double the tables now which is a cause of many of the issues we had. 2.The pasta menu has three entries and the only special was the fish of the day which had already run out at 6.15pm! The risotto menu is still big but the main course menu is small.There used to be many specials which is what I would usually have eaten.. So now, our table of four were struggling to find something to eat. 2. Two of us ended up ordering entrees which we asked to be made into main courses. When our food arrived in entrée size we were told we couldn't have the courses made bigger. We definitely weren't told that at the time although our waitress swears she did tell us - but she didn't. We would have ordered differently or left at that stage had we known. 3. After about 20 minutes plain bread arrived and some olives. No butter or oil. When we managed to speak to our waitress, she said we had to wait for oil as they had run out of ramekins and were waiting for clean ones. How is that possible? A different waitress brought us oil and butter immediately! 4.Then we waited and waited and waited. Our waitress said that we needed to wait a minimum 20-30 minutes for any food. That is the standard time to wait for their food and offered us glass of wine on the house -which we took!! Again we would have left at the beginning had we known. We said we had been in the restaurant for an hour. The next thing that happened had never happned to me in a restaurant before. Our waitress went to the kitchen and checked the time of our docket and came back and said we had only been waiting for half an hour! We thought this was very insolent and unecessary. When we asked when the food would be ready, she didn't know. We sent her back to find out. She came back and said 5 minutes. Then our food dribbled out over another 20 minutes plate by plate. 5.The risotto was the usual high standard but the tomato and capsicum salad was filled with tasteless pale unripe (but not trendy green) tomatoes and two slivers of capsicum. One of our guests wanted a simple pasta with oil,and chiili. When it arrived it was squid ink pasta. Our guest was horrified. Again he would have changed his order had he known. He reluctantly ate the pasta as he didn't wish to wait another hour. 6.When I complained about the tomato salad and the entrée size food, the manager came out. I explained that our whole dining experience had been problematic. As I started explaining the above story, she was dismissive providing excuses rather than a warm endearing apology. She said we could have moved tables (even though we were told we couldn't) and she said the heaters were turned on, when they weren't. She also defended the waitress about the entrée size food. As I continued recounting the issues, she stopped me and said.. "So what do you want.? I said I just wanted her to hear about our experience. She had no interest in hearing it and said she would give us another glass of wine and take away the tomato salad. She agreed to allow us to keep the salad and take it off the bill. We couldn't wait to leave and I left having had insufficient food but with no interest to order any more and wait! The risotto is still good. So you as the reader need to decide if your interest in risotto and waiting a long tme to eat it, outweighs all the other issues. If you go to the restaurant and have a dissapointing experience, I urge you to write a review - not to damage the restaurant but to help persuade them to improve their guests dining experience. read more

Arrived at 9pm on a Friday night and was advised that only pasta and risotto were available. On reviewing the menu I discovered only three pasta dishes were listed, then on ordering discovered that at least one of the three were sold out. Was very disappointed that I found myself in an Italian restaurant with only two pasta dishes available. The meals were small, served cold and over priced for serving size and staff failed to clear entrée dishes until well after mains were finished. The only redeeming aspect on the meal, was that it was served promptly. Beyond that all I shall say is that I will not be dining at this establishment again. read more