The Faro siblings have built a small empire on a single, crowd-pleasing dish: Neapolitan-style pizza with a Sicilian twist. Their woodfired product is cooked at extremely high temperatures, made with minimal toppings but lots of sauce so it's deliciously squidgy.

Perfecting one thing has served Jonathan Faro and his sister Vittoria well; in the past three years they’ve opened pizzerias in Bondi, Potts Point and a 180-seat all-day venue in Rooty Hill. But now they’ve branched out, adding an element of seafood to their fourth restaurant, Society Pizza e Pesce, also in Bondi.

Like the pizza, the seafood they serve honours their Southern Italian heritage and makes sense in a beach suburb. “Surprisingly there aren’t that many places to get great seafood in Bondi. And we’ve done carbs and protein for so long we wanted to shift and offer something light and healthy,” says Jonathan.

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Much of the seafood menu is cooked on a robata-style charcoal grill, from the plump Yamba prawns, to the tuna and salmon skewers. Grilled dishes are finished with a simple, tart Sicilian salmoriglio dressing of lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil, minced garlic, parsley and salt.

The menu has allowed the Faros to be creative and apply traditional cooking techniques to unconventional ingredients. There’s an octopus carpaccio that’s slow poached, pressed and thinly sliced to achieve a tender dish balanced with salty black-olive crumb and tart lemon balm. It pairs well with the Marco Polo cocktail made with vodka, ginger, mint and guava.

Although Society Pizza e Pesce is seafood-centric, there’s still an extensive pizza menu. The gamberi (prawn) and chilli pizza is a simple, delicious dish. For something with serious heat, the diavola – with creamy fior di latte cheese, spicy salami, roasted capsicum, onion and olive – is unbeatable.

Like the other venues this one is bright, and the pizza oven and open kitchen are central to the space. Its trademark (often hilarious) Sicilian hand-gesture artworks also decorate the walls.
Will they slacken the pace now they have a quartet of venues? “I always say I want to slow down, then I see a great opportunity,” Jonathan says. “The plan is to rest after this, but who knows?”

Society Pizza e Pesce
88 Curlewis Street, Bondi Beach

Hours:
Sun to Thu 5.30pm–10pm
Fri & Sat 5.30pm–11pm

societypizzeria.com.au