Adored Group opens second venue in Sydney’s CBD
The Adored Group has opened Matteo Downtown on Sydney’s Bond Street in the CBD.
Designed by award-winning architecture and interiors firm, ACME, Matteo Downtown has been inspired by the idea of ‘pizza in the piazza’, an immersive experience that captures the nostalgia, vibrancy and buzz of big-city Italy.
Downtown is open each weekday from 7am for breakfast, while an express lunch menu is available from 11am.
The venue also has a dedicated mozzarella bar, with chef Orazio D’Elia, who hails from Campagnia, a regional area of Italy known for their buffalo fields, partnering with cheese producer La Stella Latticini for its daily deliveries of fresh cheeses.
“Mozzarella is the queen of cheeses on any Southern Italian table,” said D’Elia. “I’ve grown up eating Mozzarella balls like apples. Bringing the Mozzarella Bar to life at Downtown is very special to me, as it represents dishes from my childhood that I want to share with my food family in Australia”.
The kitchen features two traditional Neapolitan brick-style pizza ovens hand-made by Napoli’s Visciano family especially for Matteo Downtown. There is also a large rotisserie used to slow cook beef, chicken and pork, sourced from organic, grain-fed suppliers, and they will soon be introducing a ‘dine on request’ section that allows people to order whole suckling pig, prime rib, capretto lamb and roast chickens, 24 hours in advance.
A bar overseen by Maurizio Furiani opens five days a week from 4pm-6pm featuring a selection of wine, beer, and cocktails accompanied by complimentary snacks. The wine list is curated by head sommelier Chiara Danieli (ex Guillaume, est. and Da Vittorio, Bergamo) and features Italian organic red and white wine varietals on tap.
Sheridan Randall, 25th September 2018
