Pop up Italian restaurant for Brisbane

The west end of Brisbane is getting a new Italian restaurant.

The pop-up restaurant will feature popular Italian eatery Salt Meats Cheese. It has teamed up with ice cream heavyweights Gelato Messina and acclaimed Brisbane French restaurant Montrachet to create the new space over the laneway area in front of the Bromley Room at West Village in Boundary Street.

It will open daily from 7am.

And it will be offering true, Italian-style coffee roasted on site. In addition to that, diner will be able to get pastries from Bowen Hills’ Montrachet Boulangerie.

And for lunch, diners can expect full-on Italian fare with antipasti, pasta and pizza will be on the menu.

The pop-up will also be offering special new vegan and vegetarian offerings featuring the likes of beetroot and spinach-based pizza dough.

“And we’ll have a twist of all the Italian food, for example, instead of a classic arancini, we’re going green peas and chickpeas arancini. We’re going to have Italian falafel … It’s a very heavy, rustic, old Italian street food menu, but we’re not just going to have the classic dishes, we’re going to have a twist to accommodate the locals,” Salt Meats Cheese co-founder Stefano De Blasi told the Courier Mail.

As for the bar on-site, it will be curated by the well-known Sydney mixologists Archie Rose.

People can expect to get classic drinks alongside quirky cocktails.

These include a Grana Padano-infused gin concoction, a charcoal pina colada and even a Vegemite cocktail served in a 1970s Vegemite jar.

“We’re going completely out of control,” De Blasi told the Courier Mail.

Then at night, it all changes again.

People coming in will find a completely different space run by Gelato Messina.

And it will be offering up its exclusive hot chocolate, the Bombe Choc Alaska made with dulce de leche gelato, alongside custom-made mini gelato cakes.

Leon Getler 26th June 2018.