Cecconi's Cantina Ph: 9663 0222 ; Basement, 61 Flinders La, MELBOURNE 3000 www.cecconiscantina.com Modern Italian, $$$ Open Mon-Fri 7am-11am noon-3pm Mon-Thu 6pm-10.30pm; Licensed; AE MC V Chef Olimpia Bortolotto & Daniel Kranjcic (11-10-10) Owner Olimpia, Maria & Anna Bortolotto (11-10-10)

Photo: Tony Knox

Other published opinions

Age Good Food Guide 2012 Score: 15.5/20, 1 Hat

Age Good Food Guide 2011 Score: 15/20, One Hat

Age Good Food Guide 2011 Score: 15/20, One Hat

Age Good Food Guide 2011 Score: 15/20, One Hat

Age Good Food Guide 2011 Score: 15/20, One Hat

Age Good Food Guide 2011 Score: 15/20, One Hat

Age Good Food Guide 2011 Score: 15/20, One Hat

Age Good Food Guide 2011 Score: 15/20, One Hat

Gourmet Traveller 2011 Australian Restaurant Guide "The Bortolotto family has been a constant on the Melbourne food scene for more than 40 years and the experience shows at Cecconi's Cantina. The upholstered, club-like basement space with its central open kitchen deals in unashamedly old-fashioned comforts right down to the hospitable, accommodating service"

Age Good Food Guide 2010 Score: 15/20

Gourmet Traveller 2010 Australian Restaurant Guide "In a city not short of excellent Italian restaurants. Cecconi's Cantina can proudly boast of being one of the best exponents. Handmade pasta and al dente risotto underpin intelligent variations on a theme, such as a stracciatella with prawn dumplings, finished with shredded spinach and parmesan"

Age Good Food Guide 2009 Score: 15/20

Gourmet Traveller 2009 Australian Restaurant Guide "With its mood lighting, brocade-backed chairs and marble bar, this basement restaurant feels like the sort of place you might visit to woo a client or close a deal. But intelligent, sometimes endearing service saves Cecconi's from seeming stitched up"

Age Good Food Guide 2008 Score: 15/20

Gourmet Traveller 2008 Australian Restaurant Guide "A game of musical chairs ensued in 2006, leaving Rockpool Bar & Grill in Cecconi's old Crown space, and Cecconi's in the mood-lit basement made famous by Langton's - and sitting very pretty"

Age Dani Valent, 26-2-2007

Age Epicure Restaurants, John Lethlean, 24-10-06 Score: 15/20

Herald Sun Dining Out, Stephen Downes, 17/10/06 Score: 15/20 "Ceccani's Cantina continues the veteran Bartalatta restaurant family's spectacular caneen. You'll eat big and hefty servings of fairly pricey Latin-leaning tucker and be served impeccably. The wine list is long and fairly expensive, most battles priced beyond the 305 of dollars. Eight white table wines, a rose and six reds are sold by glass. The chairs should be replaced."

Herald Sun Eat, Bob Hart, 7-10-06 "With the addition of "Cantina" after the name, Cecconi's is prospering in a new home Langton's old Flinders Lane basement, into which it slid like a greased foot into a worn sandshoe.These premises, originally shaped around the brasserie aspirations of masterchef Philippe Mouchel"