Sandrino's Cafe & Pizzeria

Posted by: jenn7 | 17 October 2010, 11.15pm

We were expecting very little when we had lunch here recently. How wrong. Both pasta dishes we had were great & tasty. Would definitely go again for this great Italian fair.

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Posted by: tigorbear | 3 August 2009, 10.03pm

My significant other and I recently went for lunch at Sandrino's because we've eaten there before...great choices on the menu, and well priced too. Ordered the mussells which were sensational!

The only disappointing thing there was the unfriendly vibe we got from the waitress who served us (who, come to think of it, was probably the manager because she was dressed very differently to the rest of the waiting staff).

You know, how you can tell a fake smile over a genuine one? How you can tell the difference between somebody who is genuinely keen to serve you and somebody who looks like they could be doing something better with their time? How a person can make you feel unwelcome and uncomfortable by the way they treat you and look at you - we got those vibes from the woman who served us.

It made me feel like I could not even ask her for a glass of water! :(

So despite the food because delicious, the service and the atmosphere was affected by the unfriendly nature of this woman.

Nonetheless, would still come back one day. But will just try to avoid that woman next time! ;P

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Posted by: PizzaBella123 | 22 March 2009, 3.02pm

This is the best Italian food I have tasted since I went to Italy! Great food, but it is a little loud inside.

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Posted by: Ditte | 11 May 2008, 10.22pm

We had a really nice lunch experience at Sandrino's. The pizza was very tasty and had that great pizza base that so many other places don't manage to make. The pasta was also nice and tasty.
All in all a better Italian food experince than many other places.

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Posted by: suzfisher | 18 November 2007, 3.36pm

Friends took me to Sandrino's. Knowing nothing of its legendary status within Freo, I was thoroughly impressed. It was packed on a Friday night, however after a short 5 minute wait we were seated. It's a very loud restaurant with its open kitchen, so conversation is a battle. The service was very quick, with all staff very attentive.

I find it hard to get excited about Italian but the food is aesthetically beautiful in presentation (the seafood pizza comes with mussels in full shell!). I had the scallop and prawn ravioli in a saffron sauce, it was really tasty. The price reflects the food, the wine list is of an average quality but does offer everything by the glass. For dessert I had a chocolate pecan pie, pretty decent.

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Posted by: cricketk | 22 January 2007, 6.17pm

I forgot to pack a jumper for the weekend away in exotic and mysterious Fremantle. It was ridiculously cold for a December in Perth, so I spent a rather large proportion of the weekend freezing. Fortunately, the giant wood-fired ovens at Sandrino were working and the rest of Fremantle had apparently decided that they would prefer not to sit right next to them, so we even got a table without booking.

Friday night: I had 1kg of chilli mussels. Local black mussels, half a field of garlic, heaps of fresh chilli in a strong tomato sauce. Hot enough to make you weep, but smooth and sweet with tomato. Fantastic dish.

juffles had a ham, pancetta, mushroom and olive pizza, which was delicious. Perfect pizza base, toppings in the right order and cooked to perfection. We had a jug of Redback with it, which was not quite the perfect accompaniment for the mussels, but was great for the pizza.

juffles had lemon meringue pie with a scoop of chocolate icecream. I didn't try the pie, but the icecream was obviously not a commercial brand - it melted far too fast and tasted like real chocolate, rather than chocolate flavouring.

Tried to go to Madonna's on Saturday, but after they put us in a freezing alleyway and then forgot to give us menus, we buggered off back to Sandrino, where once again no-one wanted to sit next to the oven and I got to warm up.

Bruschetta to start with - basically a tomato salad with a few odd chunks of fetta, with tapenade and pesto spooned over it - all over two very lost and lonely pieces of toast. Not really standard, but quite good.

I had seafood risotto - prawns, fish, mussels and calamari. Made with basil, white wine and tomato. Rice arrived a little undercooked and continued to cook on the plate to cooked enough to eat. Seafood was perfect - no chewy calamari here! I got nowhere near finishing it, but thankfully they let me take it home in a doggy bag - made a very satisfactory if somewhat rich breakfast the next day. Juffles had a steak on mashed spud, which must have been pretty good, because it disappeared in no time flat.

Have since been back and tried a variety of other pizzas, all of which have been fantastic.

Price = midrange, excellent value

Recommended - for those who can handle crowding, insane levels of noise and serving staff who want you to move on before you're even had a look in the cake fridge.

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Posted by: gordon swears by it. | 23 November 2006, 1.54am

Fast-paced, noisy and great for people-watching.Won't win awards for fine dining, but ok food at ok prices always ensures the place is buzzing with punters.

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