V Rating: VVV
Where: 34b Campbell Parade, Bondi Beach
When: Mon - Sun breakfast - late
Tel:( (02) 9365 4303
Price: Entrees: $14.50 - $16.50 Veggie Mains: $18.50 - $20.50.

Perched on the southern end of Campbell Parade, the renovated Bondi Trattoria has a panoramic view of Bondi Beach and the diverse gaggle of people that frequent it.

The menu has a decent vegetarian selection, and more limited vegan choices. There were three veggie light snacks, 1 veggie entree, 3 vegetarian pasta or risotto choices, 2 veggie pizzas, but no veggie ‘mains’. Both the risotto and a pizza were vegan. The 5 yummy dessert options are all vegetarian, and two are vegan. All seven side dishes were vegetarian.

Choices included a strong, salty risotto strewn with zucchini flower and mushrooms, spinach and ricotta canelloni, gnocchi with white asparagus, sage, burnt butter and parmesan and a light bordering on tasteless potato, garlic and rosemary pizza with olive oil.

We went a bit crazy and also ordered the creamy mashed potato (a meal highlight), the sweet roasted chilli and parsley mushrooms (very spicy) and grissini with eggplant and garlic dip (tasty) in addition to two mains.

This was more than enough food and left no room for dessert.

Before being renovated Bondi Tratt filled a unique niche in the Campbell parade scene. It was many cuts above a cheap and cheerful backpacker option, but never a styled, expensive hang-out for the Eastern Suburbs in crowd.

With its swish new revamp Bondi Tratt has taken a few more steps towards the latter camp. However, despite the oversized light shades, polished brown wood fittings, and tiled toilets, I got the feeling that Bondi Tratt still had it’s heart in the right place and wasn’t just for the beautiful people.

Update: I initially gave Bondi Tratt a VV, but having been back numerous times and always being impressed with its great atmosphere and more than decent veggie selection, I’ve upgraded it to VVV.

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