Rovollo

Set at the base of Harry Seidler's MLC Centre, Rovollo straddles the divide between charming and dramatic. The modern Italian eatery is small – just 40 seats inside – and the service embodies old fashioned hospitality. But the fit-out, complete with an abstract mural spanning the ceiling, and the dishes prepared tableside hint that a meal here will be memorable. On the menu you might find tender, grilled octopus with nduja and salsa verde, or spaghetti cacio e pepe, a creamy dish prepared in the centre of a blow-torched-hot wheel of parmigiano reggiano and finished with an egg yolk.