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Coppa Spuntino Bar & Restaurant

Natascha Mirosch
Natascha Mirosch

Coppa Spuntino's margherita pizza passes the test.
Coppa Spuntino's margherita pizza passes the test.Bradley Kanaris

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For decades CBD bars have served up lacklustre snacks, or restaurants offered a token cocktail list, but step right up hungry, thirsty people because finally food and drink are given equal billing under a single roof.  

The liquid side of this delicate balancing act is managed with generous hospitality at Coppa by drinks doyen Bonnie Shearston, abetted by a clever list, while the kitchen rights the scales with sublime grazing and sharing dishes.

Dull old bruschetta is radically made over with discs of translucent radish over tissue-thin lardo draped on wood-fired bread.

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Coppa Spuntino boasts a strong drinks list.
Coppa Spuntino boasts a strong drinks list.Bradley Kanaris

A pair of calamari hoods are stuffed with chorizo and flash-charred, while plump, sweet glazed Japanese diver scallops atop white bean puree are cooked to the very nanosecond of translucent perfection.

A litmus test wood-fired margherita pizza is beauty in simplicity.

Italian sweets can often inspire a take or it leave it response but in this case, whether a single, crisp-shelled ricotta-filled cannoli or a just-set rosemary panna cotta, definitely take it.

Crisp: Ricotta-filled cannoli.
Crisp: Ricotta-filled cannoli.Bradley Kanaris
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Natascha MiroschNatascha Mirosch reviewed restaurants and covered Brisbane’s food news for Good Food and the Brisbane Times.

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