Caffe Centrale - Hillcrest New Zealand

Amazing food. Amazing service. The perfect amount of variety. Fantastic ambiance. The starters are amazing. The mains are amazing. The deserts are amazing. AMAZING!!!

Decided to eat here on spur of the moment, but encouraged by other mm reviews.<br/ Arrived 6.30 and the place was empty so retired to a bar up the road for a predinner drink. On return discovered the place almost full and buzzing and this was a sunday night!<br/ <br/ The food was plentiful and tasty, good ' 'honest ' ' italian fare and we were attended to by a friendly waitress throughout the evening.<br/ <br/ A nice touch at the end when the chef came out to chat to us, and try and convince us to have a pudding (next time for certain as we were both absolutely full up on mains of gnocchi and canelloni.<br/ <br/ Definitely a family bistro type place that I 'd take the kids to next time and lots of the menu I 'm looking forward to trying.

Stumbled across this place, and really glad we did. Our waiter, Alessandro was extremely friendly, cheerful, and helpful, despite being pretty busy!Both really enjoyed our food: bread and dips were delicious, and a good starter for 2. Gnocchi blu was delicious (but very rich be warned! , and the special of Fettucine with chicken and mushrooms was very much enjoyed by Mum. Can recommend the limoncello cream for a digestif after dinner. :

Hubby and I went here a few weeks back. We had an amazing meal here was very authentic staff, atmosphere and food. Would recommend...in fact we're going back this weekend with friends of ours from our of town. It was that good and we eat out a lot!!

Awesome traditional homemade Italian food and amazing service. Definitely try the garlic bread!Was a great surprise as we weren't expecting to eat here but extremely glad we did.