Media Dragon: Filicudi : Why Write ✍️

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

— J. F. Powers, born in 1917

Licensed & BYO (wine only) Named after one of the islands of the Aeolian archipelago off the coast of Sicily, Filicudi Restaurant has been serving traditional Italian fare in Five Dock since 1979. A community favourite and neighbourhood gem, stunning Italian dishes such as penne granchio with blue swimmer crab and home-made gnocchi with rich beef ragu is from owner Maria Carbone’s family recipe. With the ceiling covered in hanging Chianti bottles, and a myriad of faded posters of the Italian countryside, a night dining will transport you to a humble family dining table in Italy.

Filicudi island

Twenty years worth of empty Chianti bottles are hanging from the ceiling. Faded blue posters selling picturesque Italian islands are on the walls. In the kitchen there are two nonnas and three pots of bubbling, crimson sauce. This is Filicudi, Five Dock’s 37-year-old Italian darling.

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