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Vin-Cenzo’s

Scampi with chilli, garlic and oregano.
1 / 10Scampi with chilli, garlic and oregano. Jason Loucas
Mozzarella and fire roasted peppers.
2 / 10Mozzarella and fire roasted peppers. Jason Loucas
The tables are candlelit.
3 / 10The tables are candlelit. Jason Loucas
Chicken jugs are filled with table water.
4 / 10Chicken jugs are filled with table water.Jason Loucas
Cocktails are pre-batched.
5 / 10Cocktails are pre-batched. Jason Loucas
The dining room.
6 / 10The dining room. Jason Loucas
Roasted chicken and mortadella agnolotti in brodo.
7 / 10Roasted chicken and mortadella agnolotti in brodo.Jason Loucas
Zucchini flowers stuffed with five cheeses and anchovy.
8 / 10Zucchini flowers stuffed with five cheeses and anchovy.Jason Loucas
Pig fat cannolo with ricotta and Sicilian almonds.
9 / 10Pig fat cannolo with ricotta and Sicilian almonds. Jason Loucas
Mixed Italian biscotti.
10 / 10Mixed Italian biscotti. Jason Loucas
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Vin-Cenzo’s

Italian$$

The dream of a perfect corner trattoria is alive and well on Liverpool Street.

If you’re not ordering the roast chicken and mortadella agnolotti in brodo as a mid-course, please see yourself out. If not for the chubby pasta knots bobbing around in that golden, perfectly clarified, lip-stickingly unctuous broth, then for the nonna-fabulous tureen it’s served in.

The newest in a line of hits (Bar Copains, Bessie’s and Alma’s) from chefs Morgan McGlone and Nathan Sasi, this sweet, buzzy Italian restaurant lives on the old Bar Vincent site.

Order a Campari and blood orange and an orb of focaccia with smooth house-made ricotta, then make your way through a battery of flavour bombs, from anchovy-stuffed zucchini fritters to the sweetest eggplant alla Norma. And then there’s the house-made pork belly sausage on braised lentils, with quince mustard and salsa verde.

Return visits will be needed for the pig-fat cannolo and lemon tart, if a simple scoop of choc-hazelnut gelato is anything to go by.

Good to know: Grab a table outside in the warmer months for snacks and a bottle of wine.

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