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In a brightly elaborate spot it volition service lovingly prepared tonnarelli, ravioli and tortellini (which tin beryllium purchased retail), on with wood-fired mains.
Chef Ashley-Maree Kent’s accomplishment with hand-shaped pasta volition beryllium beforehand and centre astatine her caller restaurant, Sbagliata.
Kent has turned heads with her cautiously crafted tonnarelli, ravioli doppio, tortellini and hand-cut tagliatelle – on with galore different types of pasta – astatine Ramona Trattoria, the pocket-sized Italian edifice she opened successful 2022. Sbagliata, though, volition beryllium different.
“I’ll person a unrecorded pasta room that is wholly abstracted from the main kitchen,” Kent says. “I wanted to amusement that truthful that radical commencement having much of a transportation betwixt the merchandise and the plate. Instead of it being … ‘Oh, I could get this astatine different edifice for a 3rd of the price,’ I really wanted to amusement radical the accomplishment that it takes to nutrient hand-shaped pasta.”
Sbagliata’s unfastened pasta room volition beryllium located astatine the beforehand of the restaurant, truthful passers-by tin witnesser Kent and her chefs successful action.
“If you’re sitting astatine the room counter, you tin spot the pasta getting made,” she says. “And we’ll person a retail conception arsenic well, for radical who privation to bargain pasta for home.”
If this sounds similar a step-up for Kent, it is. Sbagliata volition beryllium a 250-square-metre, 120-seat restaurant, making it larger than her 2 existing venues, Ramona and adjacent doorway neighbour Bar Rocco, combined. It volition slot into Portside Wharf arsenic portion of the precinct’s $20 cardinal refresh, which has already seen the accomplishment of Fosh, Rise Bakery and Bird’s Nest. More operators, specified arsenic Portside Social, Uncle Wang and Sugee Ramen, are owed to unfastened this year.
For drinks, determination volition beryllium a 70-bottle vino database that favours Italian and Australian vino, and a playful cocktail list.
The restaurant’s plan is being handled by Melbourne-based Alkot Studio. Kent says to expect a somewhat lighter, brighter attraction than her erstwhile restaurants, with reddish and achromatic tiling, houndstooth curtains and banquettes, marble countertops and plentifulness of greenery.
“‘Sbagliata’ is the feminine mentation of ‘Sbagliato’, which means ‘mistake’, truthful it fundamentally translates to ‘mistaken female’,” she explains. “So I wanted [lighter] colours present than a accepted Italian restaurant, which often has a batch of acheronian wood and a batch of black.”
Sbagliata volition beryllium Kent’s 4th venue arsenic owner, aft Ramona, Bar Rocco and the now-closed Cross Eyed Mary successful Coolangatta. Before that, she worked astatine Quay successful Sydney, Paper Daisy successful Cabarita, Biota successful Bowral (her location town) and San Francisco’s iconic Tartine Bakery, among galore others.
“This mightiness dependable gooey, but I wanted to punctual myself however acold I’ve come,” Kent says. “A batch of times, owner-operators hide wherever they’ve travel from and what they’ve accomplished. For me, it was benignant of, ‘Shit, I’m here. I ne'er thought I would beryllium here.’”
Sbagliata is scheduled to unfastened astatine Portside Wharf successful August.
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