"Verde is the people’s restaurant, fuelled by a passion for quintessential italian cooking and embracing the ideology that people are just as important to a restaurant as the food is." Click for more..

CEO Magazine

"Verde restaurant and bar has crushed the italian meatball stereotype, instead delivering modern southern Italian cuisine under the passion-filled eyes of Chef Antonio Ruggerino." Annabelle Cloros

CEO Magazine

"Our noses led us to Verde Restaurant & Bar, recent winner of three prestigious Chef’s Hats. As the sun set across the city, we wandered into this very elegant, intimate establishment – a stunning, heritage building." Click for more...

"Is he Australia's answer to Jamie Oliver? Antonio continues to bring an ever evoling freshness to the Sydney dining scene with his modern takes on classic Italian dishes, earning The Calabrian a cult following." Click for more...

"I’ve had my fair share of fine dining experiences – I’ve spent hours grazing through degustation menus, sampled forms of edible art and molecular gastronomy, and devoured some stellar dishes crafted by some of the country’s top chefs – and paid top dollar." Click for more...