703 Hay St
Enex100 Shopping Mall, Level 3
Perth WA 6000
Phone (08) 9485 0055
Website
I love pizza, Italian pizza, pizza that reminds me of what pizza is in Italy. Delisio does so perfectly with their pizza al taglio for takeaway or dine-in.
Wonderful simple pizzas that taste great with a base that is just heavenly crusty, not too thick, not too thin, not heavy on your stomach. You don't need 100 ingredients and sauces to make a pizza good, you need to prepare a pizza well with just the right amount of ingredients. Just an example, the white anchovy pizza, looks like and abstract painting of ingredients, you expect it to be blah, until you bite the first morsel and the flavour start riding your tongue with gusto. Everything I have tasted is good.
I have never tried their pasta, though as it is only available on weekdays and Enex100 is out of my way for lunches.
They have a mix of really Italian classics sweets (cannellini among them), and some cookies and muffins. The cookies I thought were OK. They prepare their own panna cotta and crème brûlée, as well.
They have a decent coffee (Fiori beans).
The Italian guys attending to the public are just lovely and very charming and welcoming.
This is part of the Enex100 complex, but they are located in a secluded area beside the windows, a bit at the rear, which makes it a quieter and nicer place if you want to munch and/or talk to your company without disturbance..
Delisio is a reason for go to Enex100 more often.
Beside North Perth Plaza
391 Fitzgerald St
North Perth Western Australia 6006
(08) 9227 8020
Website
Hours:
Mon-Thu 11:00 - 20:00
Located on the left side of the main entrance to the North Perth Plaza, Ecco! is a very small unpretentious restaurant with a lovely alfresco area that is very popular and sought after when the weather is good.
Ecco! is one of those
underrated unpretentious real Italian restaurants that specialises in
wood-fired pizzas (oil and tomato sauce based) and classics of the Italian Cuisine like tomato-based
gnocchi, pasta, lasagna, cannelloni, arancini, and meat dishes, and a few antipasti prepared in the house. This is not a sophisticated new-vogue Italian cuisine, there is no fancy stuff here, just traditional Italian recipes. As the old man told me,
"I have no studies, I am no chef, but I can cook Italian food as in the
old days". That is a big thumbs up for me. The place is quiet
during the day, but it is a regular spot for first and second generation
Italians, a fact that always shows that the food served there is
authentic.
The Pasta alle Vongole is the best dish I have eaten there, and one the best PALV that I have eaten in Perth in the last years. Pasta al dente, flavoursome, with the right amount of everything. Perfect. And the serving was huge.
On the contrary, the Pappardelle al Ragu were average, not al dente, and lacked a bit in flavour. Very much the so-so thing I prepare at home myself.
Their pizzas I have
tried here are very nice and flavoursome, with a thin crisp base, and
traditional simple ingredients, and no added sauces. Wood-fired ovens
really give the pizza an unique flavour and texture that makes of any pizza a good pizza.
They serve breakfast from Friday to Sunday, and they have a mix of traditional Australian favourites with more Italianized bites.
The servings of most dishes are really generous, man-sized, and you won't leave hungry. You will probably leave with a doggy bag. Pizzas are on the medium size, not too big, not to small.
The staff are friendly and attentive. It seems to be a family operated business, with some extra hands at the kitchen.
The place has three main downsides, which, in a way explains why they don't have a larger clientele. The first one is that the place it is a bit Spartan and lacks a bit in character; people love old traditional trattorie, just because of their charm, so they could just give their place the feeling of one of those. Just saying. The second one is that the place is just a BYO. The third one is that the price of some of the pasta dishes is a bit expensive taking into account that the ingredients used in some recipes don't cost much.
Ecco! is not a fancy place, but it is perfect for quiet munchers looking for simple traditional Italian recipes and pizza.
MIND - They do take-away - Hurrah.
FIX IT - Their website is very minimal and needs a bit of update. There is not reference whatsoever to opening hours. Also, the takeaway menu link corresponds to the fixed menu link, and vice versa.
