The Thousands

There are a lot of things right about the current quality of dining in this town. At just about any price point, you can find every major cuisine, most minor ones, and various combinations of them all. What other Australian city boasts a growing UygurTown? It’s at the top of Dixon Street.

But that doesn’t mean the establishment of this sophisticated culture has been flawless. There have been casualties, like the milkbar, and traditional Australian dishes like chop suey, and the affordable suburban European joint. To take Italian, for example, most people now have to gamble on parking spots around Haberfield, Leichhardt or Bill & Toni’s.**So it’s nice when another suburb offers a robust neighbourhood Italian joint, which is what La Tavolaccia is. Nothing too flash, but honest fare available in comfortable surrounds, making for the comfortable dining experience that threatened to go the way of the prawn cocktail. And you can enjoy it alfresco too.