Calzone | For Food's Sake – A Sydney Food Blog

Vanessa: A new contender has emerged on the suburban dining scene, boasting southern Italian cuisine. Rimini Trattoria is situated in the inner west suburb of Concord and offers diners traditional Italian fair at reasonable prices. A recent Friday night outing with my fellow FFS family, Mr M and Cousin J brought us to Rimini Trattoria. When we arrived, sans booking, we were pleased and surprised that we were able to get a table with no dramas. We were promptly delivered menus, served water and read specials. We were enticed to try the  Rimini calzone with potato and cheese. ($25) This was a good serve for five people as an appetizer and had good flavor. The dough was cooked perfectly and the cheese oozed out over the potato when cut.   It seemed we were all in the mood for carb loading that night and clearly unable to make decisions between pizza and pasta, so we chose the best of both worlds. The downside of this is that we didn’t sample any of the main course …

Bianca: After a big day traipsing around our old neighbourhood in Kellyville, watching the whack-jobs in ‘Gone Girl’ and eating burgers at the Tuckshop. We then continued our slothful migration towards the inner west but brought Madre along for the fun. Alex and I were uncharacteristically unsure as to where we wanted to eat and what cuisine. We literally flitted from Chinese in Concord, to Korean in Rhodes, before finally settling on the suburb: Leichhardt, most likely Italian. We walked into one restaurant before walking right back out (lack of options and too expensive). ‘Little Sicily’ has always been on our radar because our Nonna and Aunt live within 5 minutes of the restaurant so we constantly pass it, we would always make a point to say to each other whenever we drove by “We should really go there…it’s been there forever”. So the memory kicked into gear and we made our way to Little Sicily at 8pm on a Friday evening, we were kind of expecting a lull in service, maybe a half full …