Saigon City Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant Newport

Tasty, reasonably priced and friendly. This gem of an asian restaurant has all the flavours you'd expect. On the main road in the middle of Newport shopping strip, this gets popular on the weekend so you better book if you have a group. Seating is inside or outside in a gazebo type shelter.

BYO and no corkage. Sweet.

They do banquets for at least 4 persons. We had Vegetarian Rice Paper Rolls, fresh and clean with a spicy dipping sauce.

The chicken satay sticks were a generous serve. I think I could have stopped here but we ordered two more mains.

The special Green Mango prawn salad was spicy and lime infused. A good contrast was the Chicken with Cashew Nuts.

Street View

Satay Sticks

Vegetarian rice paper rolls

Chicken with cashew

Green mango salad

Rating: Vespa

Cost for 2: $50

Pizzeria e Cucina

A fine Italian Italian restaurant. It is on the main drag in Newport Beach and is large and has a friendly feel. Lots of families with children and a few hipsters at the bar. The wait staff are always welcoming and the prices very reasonable for the large serves.

We had the garlic pizza bread - soft with a perfecto base - plenty of garlic (lucky I have the day off tomorrow). There are lots of choices for pizza or mains but we decided to go pasta tonight.

For mains Garganelle - whole egg Garganelle pasta with prosciutto, peas, potato and truffle cream. This dish was the highlight of the night - creamy and different.

Gnocchi guance di bue - potato dumplings in ox cheeks with red wine and vegetables.

For Dolci the Tiramisu is a standout.

Rating: Fiat 500 Cost for 2 with wine, main and dessert: $85

Revisted here in February 2015 with a party of 5: Had an early 5.30pm sitting as one of our party had to go out later, there were lots of families with kids here at this time, and again the wait staff were friendly and helpful. We ordered the garlic pizza bread to start, while we decided on our order.

We went for 3 pizzas and a pasta dish, this turned out to be the perfect amount. Ventre pizza was the standout, pear and pork belly, second best was the Quattro stagione (procuitto and cheese etc, and the special pizza was the calamari. We also had the gnocci gorgonza and walnut which is super creamy and tasty. Not sure I could eat this on my own but we all shared. No dessert today and the bill was $120. Perfect!

Contact: 315 Barrenjoey Road Newport NSW 2106

Phone (02) 9986 0577

Zubi

This hip cafe is always busy and no wonder why. Fast service, chic atmosphere and a hidden garden that on a sunny day is divine. The food is pre-prepared and heated but it is better than most can do on the spot. This day there was a funky cool jazz band. We had the procuitto brioche and banana bread, plus two coffees. Cost =$20 Rating:Vespa