Casa Ristorante Italiano

Casa Ristorante Italiano holds down the middle of the Promenade at 42-48 The Promenade, King Street Wharf.

Casa is the wharf’s Italian: pizza from the oven, pasta, and a list that runs from truffle prosciutto to a BBQ chicken pizza, which tells you the kitchen is happy being generous rather than precious.

It suits long lunches, families, and mixed groups where someone always wants pizza. White tablecloth Italian it is not, and that is its virtue: it is the dependable middle of the strip, priced and paced for people who eat here often rather than once.

Hours and the early close

Casa runs lunch through early dinner: 11:30am to 8:30pm most of the week. That 8:30pm close is earlier than its neighbours, so it works better as the first stop of a night than the last. Book or arrive by 7pm to eat without watching the kitchen wind down, then carry on to Cargo Bar or the bars along the boardwalk.

Getting there

Mid Promenade, flat walk from the Shelley Street and Sussex Street car parks, evening flat rate after 5pm. The precinct map shows it a few doors from the wharves themselves, which makes it the natural pre-cruise dinner.

The rest of the strip: all restaurants at King Street Wharf.