Fratelli Fresh

Simple food in a relaxed environment.
Good pasta and nice bistecca.
Good ambience which enables you to kick back and relax — good informal dining with helpful and attentive wait staff.

Lunch was fun. This is s busy joint that works well with it’s retail association. We were walk ups and benefitted from a short queue. It is always encouraging when tap
water is on offer and it was — sydney’s white gold was good.
What was so great was shaved baby cabbage … been on the menu for some time and it gets better! Meatballs and fettucine were complimentary … indeed good flavours. We supplemented the ‘white gold’ with a fine bottle of champagne Pommery. The cheese dish closed out a lovely lunch. Come and try this place. The atmosphere is amongst Sydney’s best.
This was lunch — the menu is quite expansive!

I had a love /​hate experience at the Potts Point Fratelli Fresh. It all started with a lot of love. Like the Walsh Bay and Waterloo locations, Fratelli stocks some premium Italian produce and products for the serious cook. If you’ve ever wanted to make a lasagna from scratch, now is the time. Are you tired of the old canned Coles pasta sauces and the stock standard olive oil that dresses your salad? The Fratelli Fresh shelves are full of special little things that will likely catapult your cooking from mediocre to excellent (unless of course you burn things, then I don’t know what to tell you).
On the evening I stopped in, I wasn’t shopping for ingredients but rather, trying to order a take away salad. The waitress /​hostess immediately made my friend and I feel like we were unwanted guests. The restaurant was busy, sure, but not overwhelmingly so. I ordered a pumpkin, beetroot, and pinenut salad. I asked ever-​so-​politely if I might be able to swap the feta for goats cheese, as I am allergic to cow’s milk. Holy hell, gaging the worker’s reaction, one might have thought I asked for the kitchen staff to stop what they were doing and lead a parade through Potts Point, banging pots and singing tunes!
In the end, she begrudgingly granted my request. When I got the salad home, it was made as I asked and tasted good, but I couldn’t help feeling bitter about the whole experience. It might not have been a love /​hate, but it definitely went from love to annoyance, in a hurry.

Fratelli Fresh in Potts Point is not Yo Mamma’s place. It’s at the highest point of the T intersection where association (upscale things like Barney’s or Joans on Third in LA) and innovation meet. Half the space is dedicated to fresh fruits and vegetables and Italian delicacies like chocolate Napoleans and the other half of the space, dedicated to eating as it is, is not all that hard to miss — look for the kind of people who ‘lunch’ if ya know what I mean. Unfortunately, though, while it’s certainly a quaint place to eat, it doesn’t really rock any of my senses like the one at Fratelli Fresh in the Rocks. For one thing, the staff seem to hover a lot more over everyone here (this clearly has something to do with the sit-​down area which is a lot smaller than the one in the Rocks) and generally look like little giants. The food, in my experience, has also never been really comparable to the grub at the Rocks location — even though they look like they have the same menu.
Still, it’s a convenient location if you’re anywhere near the Potts Point/​Darlinghurst area and it has yummy-​looking fresh fruit and veg.