RESTAURANT

In the Media

The Courier Mail
October 2008

NSW swept the board last night in the 2008 Savour National Awards For Excellence, taking 17 of the 34 top spots. The finals of the Restaurant and Catering awards, held this year in the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre . . . Sydney's Pendolino is Australia's best new restaurant... Read more
The Weekend Australian
June 2008

This is without doubt one of the best new restaurants in the nation.

Ex-Otto chef Nino Zoccali has made a welcome return to the stoves at this lovely venture in Sydney's historic Strand Arcade. Zoccali has spent the past few years preoccupied with olive oil and has transferred that passion to his new gig, finding unique oils to enhance his imaginative dishes and even listing these varieties on his menu...Read More

Sydney Morning Herald
May 2008

An old hand, a deft touch, a new restaurant ... the scene is set for some fine Italian food...
Nino Zocalli, the chef who premiered Otto and Nove restaurants' Italian panache with Maurice Terzini, has returned to the kitchen after several years nurturing his affection for olive oil... Read More

Australian Gourmet Traveller
May 2008

On the upswing... Perched at the top of Sydney’s elegant Strand Arcade, Pendolino swings between an olive-oil emporium and an impressive Italian restaurant...
Love has a name, and it’s pappardelle con ragù di vitella e maggiorana. Plainly translated, that’s strips of pasta with a sauce of veal and marjoram. In the flesh, it’s a more sensual arrangement of superb silken ribbons sauced with a herby braise of White Rocks veal shin... Read More

The Daily Telegraph
May 2008

The good oil on Italian...
The Strand Arcade is about the last place you'd expect to find a bustling new restaurant. Lovely though the arcade is, it's essentially an upmarket shopping mall that at night is as desolate as any lonely corner of the CBD. But ascend the lift to level two after hours, and you'll find Pendolino, the brainchild of former Otto chef Nino Zoccali... Read More