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I had the Primavera pasta my Partner had the Calzone.
My pasta was cooked to what is considered al dente to which I was pleased to discover. I have been at a few restaurants where the pasta has been slightly over cooked or sticky.
The black olives were a good flavour burst to the dish. The pine nuts went hand in hand with the olive oil. The sausage used was of sound quality. The portion was a wee bit on the smaller side considering the price, but was happy overall.
The Calzone was HUGE! and I had to assist in finishing it off. The crust was not salty and the dough was cooked as it should turn out. Overall flavour was sound enough. So a thumbs up on that one.

Excellent and efficient and food arrived fairly quickly even when this place was heavily patronised while we were there. My biggest suprise was on arrival. Being greated by an Italian man with a handshake and warm smile. This happens very rarely and I thought is was fantastic.

It's your typical lively Italian familly owned restaurant and thats what you have to expect there. Clean and lighting was soft enough not harsh. The interior was not daggy either.

Basically yes we will go again for sure. Being pleasantly stunned with the greeting and handshake by an Italian which the same manner was repeated on our departure left me warm about the place. Waitpersons were pleasant and quick and smiled. Food is your run of the mill sound quality Italian cuisine.

This was the first time I have ever been to a restaurant and been served a meal that was completely inedible. When bringing it to the attention of the waitperson, management did not even acknowledge there was an issue and refused to discount the meal or offer an alternative.
The servings, other than the pizza, were small, especially considering it is 'Italian' cuisine. Nothing at all to rave about here. Half a star to the bianco..that was nice!

Our waitperson was excellent. Very friendly and customer service focussed. Management - terrible. Food took an excessive amount of time.

The restaurant was busy so the ambience was good. The owner was friendly, just a shame his product and selected staff let him down.

Do not recommend at all. Meals are overpriced, small and very basic. Definitely better places to eat in Perth.

The food, once it had arrived was decidedly average. The huge pizzas were good, but the caesar salad was virtually lettuce and bacon (no egg, no anchovies, store bought dressing) and the risotto and rice accompanying the garlic prawns tasted like microwave rice. The prawns were plentiful but the sauce was cold. Certainly not worth the wait. I can't believe other people have rated this place so highly...there are more than enough better Italian restaurants in Perth. The food here was the quality of a bad night at Siena's but double the price! And that's being disparaging to Siena's!

Terrible. We had to ask where our food was after waiting an hour. When we went to pay the bill the patron asked how our meals had been. When my boyfriend said "ok" the patron replied "by ok do you mean great". Such arrogance! Also our water was not topped up at all during our very long wait...

The ambience is quite nice: the mismatch of souvenirs and terracotta colouring is pleasant and certianly feels "italian".

I can't believe this place comes so highly recommended. I would not recommend it to anyone. Great location but I feel that they are resting on their laurels a bit. Service was terrible and the food average. Plus the area near the bathrooms is disgusting. Do yourself a favour and go elsewhere. There are many better options on Beaufort St

It was our first dining experience at Savini's and definitely will not be our last!. Our table ordered the risotto which apparently was to 'die for', Surf and Turf which came with the 4 of the largest prawns i have seen in a long time and a nice juicy piece of meat with roasted potatoes and a tasty garlic cream sauce. Hubby ordered a pizza which he enjoyed and i had the grilled calamari on a bed of Greek salad. The squid were cooked to perfection and locally caught which is a nice change, and the salad was VERY fresh. And the Barista knows how to make a decent cappuccino!

The owner personally greated and seated us at a table of our choice, he also made our 10 month old daughter feel very welcome. The staff were pleasant and helpful. The owner came across several times to make sure everything was to our liking.

The restaurant took me back to memories i have of a quaint little restaurant in Rome.... need i say more

It is nice to find a restaurant were not only is the food fantastic but it is clear that the owner and staff actually care about what they are serving and ensure that you have a pleasant dining experience. Well done!

Excellent- we selected 6 mains and shared them- 3 pizzas, 2 pasta and the squid on Greek salad. Light, tasty, each a flavour unto itself.

Prompt seating, friendly staff, no complaints.

Balmy night sitting on the verandah- great atmosphere

Highly recommended- a nice change

I moved to the area about 6 months ago- and was delighted to find such a great local restaurant. The food here is delicious- the chicken stuffed with fetta and cashews is a favourite of mine, and the pizza's are all well cooked with generous layers of topping. Food prices are affordable, and I love coming here when I cant be bothered to cook myself (!)

Dino is friendly and welcoming, and comes around to chat to tables. Waiters are generally quite knowledgeable and friendly.

A mismatch of souvenirs from Italy, the restaurant is charming and full of pictures and things to look at.

One of my favourite casual restaurants in Perth- I will be going back here again and again. Love it.

Loved the pizza, was great for the price. My wife has a dislike for fruit so was taken back when the fish came out with pear. The pumpkin pizza is a firm favourite, the garlic prawns are extra creamy, would like more rice with the main.

Dino is flamboyant and very friendly, makes you feel like you are family. At times the service can be slow, but not as bad as other restaurants.

Cosy, good for a relaxed, casual meal. Too noisy on busy nights for a romantic dinner.

We will be going back.

We have been to Savini's on several occasions. The food has been very tasty and the wood fired oven cooked meals have been something to keep coming back to the restaurant. We have tried several different dishes and have always been happy with the outcome. Well done. The prices have always been reasonable, another reason to keep coming back.

The service has been good in general. There have been occasions when it has been slow but we have always been advised. I can accept that. Its when you are not told that you get impatient.

Savinis is an old establishment but it has ambience. There are always patrons filling the restaurant and booking is essential.

Value for money and great tasting food. I will keep going back.

The food left a lot to be desired. 3/6 on our table ordered the seafood risotto and had to send it back. It was almost as though the risotto had simply been cooked in chicken stock and then braised seafood was thrown in. Sadly when it came out a 2nd time, it was just the same. Pizza's just OK - toppings very minimal.

Service was very average except for the lovely greeting by the owner which is always so welcoming. Sadly his waitstaff let him down by poor service and attention.

Savini is getting a little run down and needs some re-vamping and a general tidy up. Behind our table was a framed picture of an event from 1997 on the floor - just put it somewhere else!!

Savini was in its prime in the late 90's but lacks the spark and great food that it used to have.

My partner and I visited for the first time. We were taken aback by the personal greeting of Dino on arriving at the restaurant…we thought perhaps we were mistaken as family!

The food was really great. Lovely fresh and flavoursome cooking.

The wait staff extremely friendly and were very humorous.

I'd definitely go back again...

Cruising around the districts surrounding Perth city, we espied Savinis Café in Walcott Street Mt Lawley and a perfectly situated parking spot outside the door to boot! This just had our name all over it for Sunday lunch. Whether it was the location or the lateness of our meal or even just that it was the middle of a long weekend, Savini’s was surprisingly unpopulated. I say surprisingly because we had a very nice meal in comfortable surroundings with the very affable attention of both owners of this café.

As we walked into the cool and dark (in a good way) café, we were greeted by one of the owners and given our choice of tables in the lightly airconditioned interior. There is a semi-alfresco area as well but the cooler and darker area beckoned to us tantalisingly. The tables for two are a little on the tight side but typical of a café environment. These tables were covered in rust coloured linen cloths and as we sat down, our hostess provided us with menus and immediately noticed and rectified that our table had not been set correctly. (We hadn’t even had time to notice our surrounds let alone that a serviette was missing!) The room is painted a similar colour to the tablecloths, making the room feel cosy and you could imagine that it would be just right on a winter’s night with the woodfired oven going full bore. The addition of various (and many) works of art as well as the little knick-knacks and mementos of family life, provide a welcoming feel to the patrons.

The menu is very large both in size and in content, with the standard range of pastas and pizzas that you would expect to find in an Italian café, along with the various entrees and mains. We had already decided earlier in the day that we wanted to have a picky kind of lunch, so our eyes immediately sought out the share platters and similar. This menu did not have many of those dishes available to choose from but those on offer did hold an appeal. We decided against the antipasto plate in favour of some Italian bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, in addition to Kalamata olives and feta. Unlike some restaurants, the feta and olives were piled high in their respective bowls. All items on the plate were fresh and tasty and of a good quality. The bread, I must note, was quite light compared to most places that claim to serve Italian bread. I much preferred this variety to the norm. Our main course was the seafood platter, which at $31.50, is designed for a single diner and yet I cannot imagine who would be able to get through such a sizable platter on their own. This plate was loaded with a bowl of chilli mussels (with each mussel shell being about five inches long and holding a large succulent mussel that only hinted at chilli, and was not overpowered by it), very succulent and fresh fish, delectable calamari pieces, prawns and scallops, all sitting on a bed of salad and roasted vegetables. This was a seafood platter worth every cent. If I had to find fault with it, it would be that the scallops were not of great quality, although they were still nicely cooked and presented. I personally am not so keen on the addition of grilled fish to these platters but this fish (whatever type it was) broke away into very soft, moist flakes and could not have been better. Some people may have missed chips or a dipping sauce but in all honesty, we didn’t notice their absence. This plate is so very large that we struggled to finish it. Dessert was not an option. Our meal was rounded off by very nice coffees.

The service here is not silver service but it is of a very high standard in terms of attention and affability. Nothing was too much trouble including sourcing a glass of white wine from the family’s own collection and we were visited not only by our hostess (who acted as our waitress) but also by our host who was also keeping an eye on all of his guests. The three sons working behind the scenes were kept busy the entire time we were there, despite the limited numbers within the restaurant. Personally, I noticed the build up of heat coming from the wood-fired oven but that was as much to do with the location of our table as the outside heat of the day.

We have added this café to our collection for further visits as for the amount of food we were given, as well as the attention, $58.50 seems more than reasonable. The softly playing Italian music just added to the ambiance. Need some places like this over my side of Perth!! Definitely going back there one day.

Savinis was a long term favourite of mine and as so often happens one not so good experience can make you change direction and head off to a different "favourite" for a while. Well thanks to the good old entertainment book we headed on back to Savinis only to find the owners had changed! We started with a share of bruschetta between us. Now we all know how many different bruschettas there are in the world, this one was one of the better ones!!

Our main meals were beautiful. I had the chicken filled with fetta, spinach, and cashews served on a risotto base. My husband settled {after much contemplation} on a pasta dish which was a chicken base with eggplant and snow peas. We were both too full to consider any sweets but as I'm not overly fond of sweets, this is the norm. for us. Our evening at Savinis was very relaxed. It was the end on my working week and often the day the two of us go out and catch up with the week's events. For this reason Savinis was excellent as it was particularly quiet - but the Savinis I have always known has always been a very lively night, lots of laughter and carrying on from other tables etc, alas no more. This was a very quiet evening, maybe only 4 tables being occupied. The wait staff was trying to be bubbly but spent most of her time looking out of the front door trying to will more people in through the door. NO MY WORKING WEEK DOES NOT FINISH ON MONDAY!!!!

Oh how I wish! We will return to Savinis but not as one of the great "I must go now restaurants". It has lost something and I can't quite say what, but certainly not the food that was delicious.

I have long held an ideal in my mind (and on my palate) of what a seafood + pasta dish should taste like and i have been nothing but disappointed by every marinara - until i went to Savini Cafe!

Their pizza is great, the seafood platter is great, the Italian desserts, the mains, pizza bianci, everything is delicious! And the service is wonderful, the staff warm and generous with their time.

But, i'll always remember Savini as the place that showed me how delicious a simple Spaghetti Marinara could (and should) be.