Pizzingrillo

Pizzingrillo is an Italian bar and restaurant with a difference, and that’s a thankful thing in Melbourne, a city brimming with Italian eateries. Styling itself as a spuntini bar, pizzeria and Italian kitchen, Pizzingrillo is well-known among Port Melbourne locals and renowned city-wide for its organic approach. If you order up an authentic and handmade Italian pasta dish like the spinach and ricotta cannelloni that spinach will be from Pizzingrillo’s own garden. If you order up the fritto misto with flathead tails, king prawns, calamari and gourmet salad, those leaves have been tended in Pizzingrillo’s own garden. If you encounter rocket, tomatoes, zucchini (and their flowers) and onions on one of this Bay Street standout’s pizzas – and seeing as we’re evidently deep into authentic Italian territory then it should come as no surprise – you can rest assured that they’re organic, garden-fresh, and grown and prepared with love.