Baccomatto Osteria
Protos Projects fitted out this high class restaurant from a cold shell in Randwick. The marble was reclaimed by us from the previous iteration of the restaurant and re-finished for use in the new restaurant giving it a nice link with its past.
By Protos Projects being involved from the concept stage we were able to make suggestions, such as introducing some brown colouring to warm up the polished concrete and allowing induced cracking to occur in the topping slab creating a more rustic ‘italian’ feel.
After eight years in Surry Hills, Baccomatto has moved to Randwick.
The new Baccomatto is just like the old Baccomatto. I’m sitting at the same Carrara marble bar drinking Menabrea on tap and chatting to co-owner Mauro Marcucci, while chef Valerio Boncompagni is cooking pasta in the kitchen. It’s all exactly the same.
Except it’s not. After eight years in Surry Hills, Baccomatto has transplanted itself (and its marble bar) into a sparkling new residential and retail development in Randwick called Newmarket, right between Ra Ra Ramen and Cali Press.
Already, the glass-walled dining room is pulling in the area’s newly well-heeled citizenry (like, one mill for a one-bedroom apartment kind of well-heeled).
Seasoned Sydney restaurateur Marcucci (Pizze e Birra, Mille Vini, Enopizzeria) and business partner Michael Stevens are savvy operators, and their new site is a short walk from Randwick’s future health and education campus and its estimated 17,000 employees.
The all-pervading Roman influence shows in the homely pleasures of suppli and the much-loved pasta all’Amatriciana, originating from the ancient town of Amatrice in the hills above Rome.
