Modern Italian, since 2007

Verde, Modern Italian dining in Darlinghurst and Alexandria

Alexandria & Darlinghurst

Two Venues.One Soul.

Verde sits on the corner of Stanley and Riley Streets in Darlinghurst, inside a sandstone building from 1889. The kitchen opened in 2007. The pork shank ragu has been the best-seller since day one. It braises for five hours. In July 2026, a second venue opens in Alexandria with seven-metre ceilings and supercars in the dining room.

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Verde, Ristorante & Bar, Dal 2007
An illustration of the heritage corner building that houses Verde Darlinghurst

Darlinghurst

On the corner of Stanley and Riley, inside an 1889 Italianate building. Sixty seats, white tablecloths over butcher paper, Calabrian family photographs on the walls. The food has barely changed since the doors opened.

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Alexandria

On the corner of Collins and Bourke. Six metre ceilings, a six metre bar, a hundred seats under the trees. Lunch through the week. Private functions after dark. Italian cars behind the rope.

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An illustration of the modern Verde Alexandria building, glass terrace under the trees
01

The Garden

The herbs come from Collaroy, from the garden Antonio’s mother still keeps. The eggs come from her chickens. The kitchen cooks what the season gives it.

The family herb garden in Collaroy, overlooking the beach
02

The Kitchen

The menu is modern Italian. Pork shank ragù, slow-cooked for five hours. Crispy-skin snapper with gremolata on pappardelle. Potato and parsley fritters from his mother’s recipe. Most of it has been on the menu since 2007.

Chef Antonio Ruggerino at work in the Verde kitchen, Darlinghurst
03

The Collection

Antonio collects two things: Italian cars and vintage Italian posters. The posters line the walls in Darlinghurst, unchanged for years. The cars rotate through Alexandria, behind the rope, season by season.

Antonio unrolling a vintage Italian advertising poster in the dining room
04

The Upstairs

A private room above the Darlinghurst restaurant. Sandstone walls, one long table, weddings and birthdays and quieter nights, twenty years of them.

The Upstairs private dining room, sandstone walls, white tablecloths, Cachou Lajaunie poster
Guests in evening dress at a private event at Verde, under warm red light

What’s
On

Long lunches, supper sittings,
seasonal menus.

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A Verde host passing a tray of canapes to guests at an event

Private
Events

Weddings, birthdays,
launches. Across both venues.

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The Italian way.
Long lunches. Real conversation. No rush.
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