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Bentwood chairs clatter across the polished-concrete floor; friends laugh, clink glasses
and unwind; waiters spin and smile. Pizza Birra is stylish enough to be cool, and familiar
enough to be comfortable. Try the Capricciosa pizza - tomato, mozzarella, rocket, pros-
ciutto and parmesan - washed down with a cold Peroni.
EL LOCO$
as we lament the passing of live rock at the Excelsior Hotel, we have to admit that the hip
Mexican cantina that's taken over the band room is pretty darn cool. The food's tasty and
inventive and at $5 per taco, fantastic value.
MEXICAN
CAFFE SICILIA$
ITALIAN
( 9699 8787;
www.caffesicilia.com.au
; 628 Crown St; breakfast $8-15, lunch $8-18, dinner $20-30; breakfast,
lunch & dinner; Central)
We're sure it's not intentional but this traditional Italian eatery may
as well be a theme park for extravagant Italian-ness. It's great fun watching the cocksure
waiters swaggering around in their white shirts and black ties, delivering steaming plates
of pasta to the little marble tables. The sweets here are sublime.
WATERLOO
In recent years Waterloo's Danks St has emerged as a shopping and eating enclave, with some beaut cafes and
galleries perfect for losing a few hours in. If the wonderful
Danks Street Depot
( 9698 2201;
www.danksstreetdepot.com.au
;
2 Danks St; mains $10-20; 9am-4pm Sun-Fri, 8.30am-4.30pm Sat;
M20, 355) cafe isn't enough to tempt you, the 11 commercial galleries that inhabit the rest of the converted
should do the trick. Displays cover a broad range of contemporary arts, including photography, sculpture, paint-
ing, jewellery and Aboriginal and Pacific art.
Across the road, in-the-know gastronomes pour into
Cafe Sopra
( 9699 3174;
www.fratellifresh.com.au
;
7 Danks St; mains $18-26; breakfast Sat, lunch daily; M20, 355), well secluded above gourmet
providore Fratelli Fresh. The lengthy blackboard menu is very seasonal, using the best fresh and imported pro-
