Skip the tourists and take your next Italian holiday at The Amalfi Way.

The new waterfront restaurant offers up a taste of Italy’s southern coastline, from the more convenient location of Woolloomooloo wharf in Sydney.

Behind the new venue is restaurateur and top pizzaiolo Luigi Esposito from Via Napoli and Pizza Fritta. “The Amalfi is unlike anywhere else in the world,” Esposito says. “Our menu and the décor has been inspired by the many summers I spent there with family and friends and we wanted to replicate this with The Amalfi Way so that everyone can experience this unique feeling of being on the Italian Coastline.”

What The Amalfi Way lacks in clifftop views, it makes up for in Italian charm. The new ristorante has been decked out in sunny shades of yellow and blue, with tables positioned outside on the wharf, surrounded by potted lemon trees.

As the name suggests, the menu specialises in the regional cuisine of Campania, with plenty of fresh seafood to be had. The signature dish is the scialatielli all’Amalfitana, made using a regional pasta that’s short and thick with a rustic texture. Here it’s served in a seafood sauce with perfectly cooked prawns, scampi, vongole and calamari arranged on top.

The menu shows off just how fresh the catch is, with an abundance of crudo dishes. Kingfish, tuna, prawn, scampi and lobster are all available raw and served simply, carpaccio-style, with high-quality Italian olive oil and a bright squeeze of citrus.

Naturally, the pizza is made in the classic Napoli style, with the famous port city just 40 minutes from the Amalfi starting point. Forget everything you thought you knew about prawn pizza, here the chiara comes topped with Queensland king prawns, zucchini flowers and smoked provolone on a bubbly base, and it tastes a world away from the local equivalent.

If you’re looking to splash out, you can spend your airfares on a caviar pizza made from a black squid ink base topped with buffalo stracciatella, quail eggs and beluga black caviar.

And since you’re “on holidays”, you may as well order dessert – possibly two, if you can fit it in. The menu includes the region’s most famous sweet treat, the delizia al limone, made from vanilla sponge cake topped with meringue and lemon cream, as is The Amalfi Way.

The Amalfi Way
Shop 2/6, Cowper Wharf Woolloomooloo 
Tuesday – Sunday 12pm till late
theamalfiway.com.au