Courier Mail food and wine guide Queensland 2008 Score: 14/20 "What's not to love about Grappino? It's big hearted, convivial and there are few better places in Brisbane to slurp a bowl of spaghetti or admire the vivid beauty of a caprese constructed with decent, properly ripe tomatoes and peppery olive oil"
Gourmet Traveller 2008 Australian Restaurant Guide "
A quiet achiever in the recently reborn Paddo precinct, even early in the week it's humming with locals"
Brisbane News Dining Out Guide 2007
"Within a few short years, this family eatery has established itself as Paddington's Little Italy"
Gourmet Traveller 2007 Australian Restaurant Guide
"The place hums with happy diners engaged in cheerful conversation, particularly on weekends when Paddington comes alive. This trattoria is run by the Roduner family - father and son in the kitchen and mother and son on the floor. Fresh produce is gleaned from wherever the best is to be found, and authentic Italian cuisine is faithfully reproduced without fuss or fancy footwork."
Courier-Mail Good Life Restaurant Guide 2006
"In the heart of Paddington next door to popular Montrachet, Grappino offers a taste of the Italy of old. Chrome and vinyl padded chairs and faux marble formica topped tables, posters of 50's Italian movies all create an ambience of a bygone era and the food, hearty and plentiful, is timeless and classic."
Brisbane News Eating Out Guide 2006
"Brothers Theodor and Bernhard Roduner's cosy eatery, with its peppermint walls, Italian movie posters and laminated tabletops, is 1950s Rome meets Melbourne milkbar."
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