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The Age
14-05-2025
- Business
- The Age
First look: Lulu La Delizia team brings a cosy 24-seat cantina to Subiaco this winter
In the space of a decade, Ivana Valvasori-Pereza and Joel Valvasori-Pereza have transformed a cafe in a quiet Subiaco walkway into a key Australian-Italian wining and dining experience. While the success of Lulu La Delizia is a culmination of many factors, most will agree that ace handmade pasta, a strong grasp of Northern Italian flavours, plus the room's rollicking atmosphere, are integral to the restaurant's identity. This winter, Lulu's is growing its hospitality toolbox with the opening of a cosy 24-seat, no-reservations cantina next door to the mothership. But where Lulu's channelled and reimagined the homely, wine-soaked osteria of the Old Country, its offshoot has taken things in a more brutalist direction. A handsome travertine counter anchors the space: the stone's cool curves being mirrored by the amber-glassed gantry bar suspended overhead. Polished concrete and bare stone wells scarred by a tiler's trowel give the room a real timeless quality. Bentwood chairs and stools underscore Lulu's European sensibilities. A designed-by-committee space this ain't.
Sydney Morning Herald
14-05-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
First look: Lulu La Delizia team brings a cosy 24-seat cantina to Subiaco this winter
In the space of a decade, Ivana Valvasori-Pereza and Joel Valvasori-Pereza have transformed a cafe in a quiet Subiaco walkway into a key Australian-Italian wining and dining experience. While the success of Lulu La Delizia is a culmination of many factors, most will agree that ace handmade pasta, a strong grasp of Northern Italian flavours, plus the room's rollicking atmosphere, are integral to the restaurant's identity. This winter, Lulu's is growing its hospitality toolbox with the opening of a cosy 24-seat, no-reservations cantina next door to the mothership. But where Lulu's channelled and reimagined the homely, wine-soaked osteria of the Old Country, its offshoot has taken things in a more brutalist direction. A handsome travertine counter anchors the space: the stone's cool curves being mirrored by the amber-glassed gantry bar suspended overhead. Polished concrete and bare stone wells scarred by a tiler's trowel give the room a real timeless quality. Bentwood chairs and stools underscore Lulu's European sensibilities. A designed-by-committee space this ain't.
