Ciccio’s Woodfire Pizzeria & Bar

Best Known For

Gourmet pasta dishes such as fusilli with slow-cooked beef ragu and San Marzano tomato.

The future of pizza is in safe hands at well-loved restaurant Ciccio’s Woodfire Pizzeria & Bar on Nepean Highway in Aspendale. This Melbourne institution delivers authentic Italian pizza and pasta in warm and inviting surrounds as guests salivate over tantalising aromas wafting from the kitchen. Say grazie to starters of flash-fried calamari with aioli and lemon, or provolone focaccia with confit garlic and oregano; before twirling your fork around pasta plates of linguine with prawns, mussels, clams, swordfish, calamari, garlic and tomato. Pizza lovers salivate over slices topped with ham, salami, pork and fennel sausage, caramelised onion and mozzarella, on a tomato base; or mozzarella, pesto, goats’ cheese, zucchini, Spanish onions and nduja. Finish with a dessert of housemade tiramisu.