{"id":4014,"date":"2017-03-24T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T23:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2019-02-03T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T07:09:09","slug":"da-noi-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/24\/da-noi-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Da Noi is a Slice of Sardinia in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne&#8217;s Da Noi restaurant serves up a sunny slice of Sardinia,&nbsp;from freshly grilled octopus to slow roasted kid (young goat). Food like this is almost always wonderfully satisfying, where the taste of quality&nbsp;meat shines through with minimal garnishing. &#8220;Honest&#8221; food as some other reviewers call it. It helps that the food is cooked well.&nbsp;We normally just leave our meal in the hands of chef-owner Pietro Porcu and this leads to a&nbsp;series of seafood based antipasti, a&nbsp;pasta entree, and the braised and roasted meat. The roast kid and pork are usually very good, with some of the meat coming fresh from Pietro&#8217;s own farm outside Melbourne. The restaurant sits on Toorak Road with a narrow front area that opens up to added seating in the back where there&#8217;s a wood burning oven and a spit. Reservations are recommended &#8211; whenever I go, it is almost always full. Details on Da Noi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/danoi.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4022\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/24\/da-noi-is-a-slice-of-sardinia-in-melbourne\/danoi-melbourne-2017-02-03-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4022\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4022\" src=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-4-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Da Noi&#8217;s cheery entrance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4029\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/24\/da-noi-is-a-slice-of-sardinia-in-melbourne\/danoi-melbourne-2017-02-03-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4029\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4029\" src=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-7-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Sardinian food in Melbourne\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-7-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-7-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raw fish &#8211; a pesce crudo &#8211; with olive oil, lemon juice, cucumber shavings and caviar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4026\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/24\/da-noi-is-a-slice-of-sardinia-in-melbourne\/danoi-melbourne-2017-02-03-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4026\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4026\" src=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-9-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Sardinian food Melbourne\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-9-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-9-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grilled octopus, thinly sliced<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4027\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/24\/da-noi-is-a-slice-of-sardinia-in-melbourne\/danoi-melbourne-2017-02-03-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4027\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4027 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-10-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Sardinian food in Melbourne\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-10-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-10-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shellfish and bottarga pasta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4028\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/24\/da-noi-is-a-slice-of-sardinia-in-melbourne\/danoi-melbourne-2017-02-03-11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4028\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4028\" src=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-11-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Sardinian food in Melbourne\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-11-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Danoi-Melbourne-2017-02-03-11-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goat braised in a tomato based sauce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne&#8217;s Da Noi restaurant serves up a sunny slice of Sardinia,&nbsp;from freshly grilled octopus to slow roasted kid (young goat). Food like this is almost always wonderfully satisfying, where the taste of quality&nbsp;meat shines through with minimal garnishing. &#8220;Honest&#8221; food as some other reviewers call it. It helps that the food is cooked well.&nbsp;We normally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,23,1],"tags":[78,69,111],"class_list":["post-4014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asiapac","category-australia-asiapac","category-home","tag-australia","tag-italian_food","tag-melbourne","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}