Little Bourke Street · Melbourne
Rosa’s Canteen
Traditional Italian cooking with a Sicilian lean, from Rosa Mitchell’s kitchen — open all day, Monday to Friday.
Book a table See the menu- Open
- Monday to Friday, 12–9pm
- Kitchen
- All day — no break between services
- Find us
- Level 1, cnr Little Bourke & Thomson St
- Call
- 03 9602 5491
The kitchen
Rosa cooks the food she grew up with.
Rosa Mitchell was born in Sicily and has been feeding Melbourne for decades. The cooking here is the kind you’d be given at her table: wholesome, unhurried, built on what the growers close to home are picking this week.
Sicily runs through everything — in the sardines and the agrodolce, in the nero d’Avola on the list, in the cannoli.
Reservations are recommended. Tables of eight and over are looked after separately.
From the spring menu
A few things we’re cooking
Baked ricotta27
pea & pistachio pesto, asparagus & mint
Sardine beccafico32
stuffed with bread, pinenuts & currants, orange · 5 pc
House made saffron trenette42
prawn, garlic, lemon & butter sauce
Slow cooked pork alla genovese49
onion sauce, thyme & grana padano mash
Cannolo8
ricotta, honey, marsala, pistachio
