Just Open: Salt Meats Cheese, Broadway

Sydney's Broadway precinct has lots of things. Top-notch Malaysian restaurants, a wide choice of dumplings and a shopping centre where children treat the travelator like it's a Disneyland ride. Now thanks to the kind folk at Salt Meats Cheese, it also has a place where you can drop in for a negroni, stay for pasta and finish with a Nutella-based dessert.

Opening April 7, the venue is the fifth Salt Meats Cheese store from company directors Stefano De Blasi and Edoardo Perlo (see Alexandria, Mosman, Drummoyne and Surfers Paradise for further formaggi and salumi from the pair). It's an industrial space featuring exposed brick and foliage, and the focus is on drinking and dining. Unlike other Salt Meats Cheese locations, there are no plans for a retail aspect at this point.

"We chose Broadway as it's just outside the city and we noticed how busy the shopping centre across the road was," says De Blasi. "There's a lack of restaurants and bars in the area and the population is growing, especially with young professionals working at the number of agencies and offices around."

The launch menu features a porchetta burger loaded with buttered Brussels sprouts, crackling, pickled carrots and handmade mustard ($19); pappardelle with burnt orange lamb ragu ($23); and The Hot Fritto – a tapas-style offering of crumbed olives stuffed with manchego and chilli sharing plate space with potato croquettes and fried jalapeno slices with habanero mayo ($15).

Meanwhile, a pizzeria pumps out the Portofino ($21) with fior di latte, walnuts, cherry tomatoes and handmade pesto, and a tomato-based "Vegetable Garden" pizza ($22) topped with spinach, zucchini, capsicum, onion and pumpkin.

Fans of a certain choc-hazelnut spread can get excited about Nutella Cartocci ($6). That's deep-fried pastry filled with Nutella and custard cream. Even more indulgent is the Nutella Heaven Cup ($13) filled with cookies-and-cream gelato, Kinder Bueno chocolate, Ferrero Rocher, Raffaello and Nutella sauce.

DJs will provide evening tunes from Thursday to Sunday if you feel like a few laidback beats with an elderflower spritz – and there's a takeaway menu, too.

Open daily 7am-10pm

68 Bay Street Ultimo, 02 9281 5048, saltmeatscheese.com.au