Redforno - Redfern

This Italian restaurant and pizzeria is outstanding! I enjoyed the most delicious pizza in Sydney here. The service was top-notch as well. Everything from the appetizer to the dessert was fantastic.

The chef hails from a tiny island near Sicily but has been living in Australia for a while now. This eatery is truly a hidden gem, situated in a laneway with parking a bit of a distance away. Despite that, it's definitely worth a visit. The four of us tried five different pizzas along with some draft beer they offer.

With the queue at RaRa Redfern showing no signs of diminishing, I put aside my longing for ramen and reacquainted myself with Redforno Pizzeria. Located on the pedestrian thoroughfare between Redfern Station and the suburb’s main drag, it’s prime people-watching territory on their al fresco...tables. For a slightly quieter meal, duck past their busy pizza oven to their back section where wood panelling, fake ivy walls and trailing strands of fairy lights give it some atmosphere. Coming directly from an earlier function, we’re straight into the thirst-quenching craft brews. Flavoured with orange zest and coriander, Isaac $12), by Baladin Beer, is an Italian crafty made with six strains of native yeast. It drinks almost like a bubbly, light sparkling wine and is perfect for the simple Italian eats on offer here. We ease our way into eating with the tricolour Caprese Salad $13.50) presenting well-seasoned fresh tomato slices and discs of fior di latte mozzarella around a mound of rocket drizzled with sticky balsamic. The addition of thinly sliced double smoked ham sitting under the golden Grana Padano and fior de latte cheese topper is a good one on Redforno’s Lasagna $16). The béchamel is light and creamy, the Bolognese meat sauce well balanced, and the pasta sheets that separate between them are not too plentiful. It’s comforting and warming on a slightly too cool spring evening. Made using Italian flour, Italian tomatoes and a sparse collection of fresh ingredients that allow you to taste the nicely blistered bases, pizzas at Redforno are well-handled. Truffle $28) is my favourite, but I’m a pizza bianca white pizza) enthusiast. This pizza takes fior di latte cheese and truffle cream and tenderly covers each slice with prosciutto crudo San Daniele, a dusting of oregano and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil to lubricate its passage. It’s simple and good, just like this small restaurant.

Good toppings but maybe not enough of them as they were drowned out by the crust crispier than most neapolitan pizza but somehow seemed undercooked and doughy. The tiramisu though was one of the richest and best that I’ve had and a pretty large...serve.

Our advice is never go to this restaurant. The staff are the rudest we have ever encountered unhelpful, disinterested and arrogant. Refused to serve pizza at 4.30 pm (said oven was not ready) in a so called Pizza restaurant! Domino's would have been a better...choice far less attitude.