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15/06/2026
Rumour has it Zsa Zsa Gabor once stayed at the Sebel Townhouse and ordered room service at 2am.
We can't confirm what she ordered. We can tell you that the people who know this building best are the ones who keep coming back.
The Divino Backstage Pass is our way of recognising them. Every time you spend with us, you earn points — redeemable for food and drinks. First access to deals before anyone else. And when a new performer is announced for Music Monday, you hear about it before the room fills up.
Some tables are just better than others. The Backstage Pass gets you to one of them.
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🎟️ Find out more — link in bio.
12/06/2026
Dry-ageing a duck breast is not the fast route.
It concentrates. It deepens. It takes something already good and turns the volume up in a way that a pan alone never could. What comes out the other side is a different kind of duck — the fat rendered properly, the skin a study in patience, the flavour somewhere between game and memory.
Beetroot purée underneath. Witlof alongside, bitter and necessary. The pear jus, slow and unhurried, finishing the plate the way the final note finishes a song.
Winter, doing what it does best.
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🍽️ Lunch Thursday–Sunday from 12pm. Reservations recommended — link in bio.
11/06/2026
Before there was a restaurant, there was a coastline.
The Amalfi coast in June. Positano at dawn before the tourists arrive. A kitchen in Matera where the bread is made from a starter older than the building.
This is where the Zuppa di Patate e Porri comes from — not the recipe, but the instinct. Potato and leek, the kind of soup that exists in every Italian grandmother's kitchen under a different name, finished here with smoked nuts and crispy enoki because the south has never been afraid of a good contrast.
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🇮🇹 Southern Italy, without the flight —https://www.sevenrooms.com/explore/divinoosteria/reservations/create/search?tracking=website
10/06/2026
Book your table through 7Rooms. Have a long lunch. Let the kitchen do what it does.
Then, at the end of the meal — we hand you the dice.
Roll two sixes and the whole thing is on us. Every dish. Every bottle. The lot.
The odds are honest. The offer is real. The Beef Short Rib with celeriac purée and red wine jus tastes exactly the same whether you're paying for it or not — which is to say, very good.
Book via link in bio. The dice are waiting.
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🎲 Book on 7Rooms — link in bio.
09/06/2026
Did you know?
Book a table before 2pm and your meal begins with a complimentary spritz on arrival.
In Southern Italy, this isn't a promotion — it's just how lunch starts. A cold glass, a warm room, something worth looking forward to on the other side of a Thursday morning.
The Caramelle di Zucca is already on the table in our heads. It should be on yours too.
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🍽️ Lunch Thursday–Sunday. Book before 2pm — link in bio.
05/06/2026
Pumpkin and ricotta folded into pasta shaped like little gifts. Porcini risotto finished with crispy Parma ham and smoked scamorza. Duck breast, dry-aged, with beetroot purée and a pear jus that has been reducing since this morning.
This is what winter tastes like in Southern Italy.
And right now, it's what winter tastes like at the corner of Elizabeth Bay Road and Greenknowe Avenue — in a building that has been hosting remarkable meals since before most of us were born.
The winter menu is here.
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🍽️ Lunch Thursday–Sunday from 12pm. Reservations recommended — link in bio.
05/06/2026
Florence gave us the Negroni. Palermo gave us the Spritz argument. We gave you the Smooth Criminal.
Smoky mezcal. Peach purée. A hit of citrus. The glass rolled in a chilli lime salt mix that sits somewhere between the south of Italy and somewhere altogether more dangerous.
It's the kind of drink that makes you stop mid-sip and raise an eyebrow. In the best possible way.
Happy Hour at Divino — Thursday to Sunday, 3–5pm.
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🍹 The bar is open — link in bio.
04/06/2026
Somewhere between the antipasti and the secondi, the meeting agenda stops mattering.
Our express lunch is built for exactly this — the kind of meal where the table does more for a working relationship than any boardroom could. Order together. Share a bottle. Let the kitchen do the rest.
The Sebel Townhouse has always understood that the best business gets done at a good table. We haven't changed that.
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🍽️ Lunch Thursday–Sunday from 12pm — reservations recommended, link in bio.
02/06/2026
BYO?
Not at Divino Osteria.
You don't bring your own bottlo wine to a restaurant with a wine list that reads like a secret invitation to the cellars of Italy and around the world.
Anthony Alafaci, owner and serious lover of amazing wines, has spent years of travel tasting, appreciating and curating one of Sydney's most thoughtful Italian cellars.
Consider one of Anthony's crown jewels available to you:
The famed Barolo.
Barolo who?
Grown in the misty hills of Piemonte in northern Italy, Barolo is considered the king of Italian wine. Made from Nebbiolo grapes — a grape that only grows in a handful of regions on earth. This grape creates wines that are deeply complex. Flavour notes ranging from bouquets of roses, dried red fruit, earthy truffle. The older this wine ages, the smoother and silkier it mellows.
Anthony invites you to partake in what some food historians have called the "wine of kings, and king of wines."
The 2019 Reverdito Barolo Classico DOCG —
Savoury, structured, contemplative. Pair it with our flame roasted bone marrow, cherry vinegar gel and grilled brioche. The richness of the marrow, the sharp lift of the gel, the grip of the Nebbiolo — a combination that earns its place at the table.
The 2017 Giovanni Viberti 'Monvigliero' Barolo DOCG —
Perfumed, powerful, precise. A single-vineyard wine from one of Piemonte's most celebrated producers. We pour it alongside our pan-seared duck breast — smoked, with pear jus, charred leeks, and beetroot purée. Two things at the height of their craft, finding each other.
Pull up a chair. Sip your way into flavours that transport you to castles, crowns and lavish feasts.
We'll do the rest. 🇮🇹🍷
📍 Divino Osteria · Elizabeth Bay
🍝 Lunch Thursday–Sunday from 12pm. Reservations — link in bio.
02/06/2026
In Southern Italy, pork isn't just on the menu — it's in the culture. For generations across Calabria, Campania and Sicily, the pig sat at the centre of family life, of winter, of celebration. The tradition of crumbing and frying a cutlet with local cheese and herbs runs through the South's kitchen history like a thread that never broke.
Chef Andrea's version: golden crumb, truffle pecorino, cherry tomatoes, truffle mayo. Crisp at the edge, tender through the middle, with a richness that knows when to stop.
We recommend the 2022 De Varasi Organic Chianti Aretino DOCG — vibrant Sangiovese that cuts through cleanly and stays for the conversation.
📍 Divino Osteria · Elizabeth Bay
🔗 Reserve in bio.
26/05/2026
When Elton John turned 35, he chose this address to celebrate — flying from Los Angelas all the way to Elizabeth Bay Sydney.
This used to be Sebel Townhouse.
Today Divino Osteria's here, keeping that compelling electricity alive.
While the hotel's no longer here, the magic or energy remains.
We'd like to believe that Elton might have enjoyed our
Ricotta e spinaci agnolotti — delicate pasta in brown butter and sage, quiet and beautiful in the way that only the best simple things manage to be. We recommend a glass of the 2023 Gala Estate Pinot Noir — cool-climate, velvet, and exactly the kind of wine that belongs at a table worth remembering.
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🍝 Lunch Thursday–Sunday from 12pm. Private dining available. Reservations recommended — link in bio.
23/05/2026
🎸 Tomorrow night, Alex Hurt takes the room.
Guitar. Soul. The kind of songwriting that makes you feel like the song was written about you.
Grab a table or a seat at the bar. Let the beautiful verses wash over you.
🗓️ Music Mondays — TOMORROW, 27 April
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🔗 Reserve your table — link in bio
22/05/2026
Southern Italy has always understood that the most honest food is the kind that tells you exactly where it comes from — and nothing more.
The grass-fed eye fillet arrives at 220g. What meets it on the plate has been chosen with that same economy: a burnt cauliflower purée that opens smoky and settles into something almost sweet, with a depth that surprises at the end of the fork. Parsnip chips, golden and just yielding. Rosemary powder across the surface — faint as a hillside in the distance, but you'd notice if it wasn't there.
The flavour is beefy. The purée pulls alongside it, round and rich. The rosemary surfaces at the finish. It is the kind of plate where every element is quietly present — and the sum of those quiet things is what you remember when you leave.
We recommend the 2021 Giovanni Viberti 'Buon Padre' Barolo DOCG — refined Nebbiolo, long-finishing, and built for exactly this kind of restraint at the table.
📍 Divino Osteria · Elizabeth Bay
🔗 Reserve in bio.
21/05/2026
In 1972, Led Zeppelin played to over 30,000 people at the Sydney Showground. It was, by all accounts, extraordinary.
After the show, the band vanished. Rumour has it Robert Plant was spotted in Elizabeth Bay.
The Sebel Townhouse was the place to be back then — hosting everyone from Bowie to Sinatra while keeping their secrets. The hotel's gone now. What remains at this address is something harder to name: the kind of energy that accumulates when enough remarkable people pass through the same room.
Divino Osteria is built where those legends used to disappear to after the show. We'd like to think they would have appreciated the pan-seared duck breast — smoked, rested in a pear jus, with charred leeks and a deep beetroot purée. Paired with the 2020 Poggio al Tesoro 'Il Seggio' Bolgheri — dark berries, mocha, and a finish that doesn't rush.
Neither should you.
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🍝 Lunch Thursday–Sunday from 12pm. Reservations recommended — link in bio.
18/05/2026
Did you know? We have a happy hour the whole week from 3 pm to 5 pm every day.
Why? Because every day is a good day to wind down for at least an hour at Divino Osteria... Bellissimo!
Walk-ins welcome.
📍 Elizabeth Bay, Sydney
14/05/2026
The end of a long dinner in the south of Italy has a particular feeling. The conversation slows. The wine is almost done. The room gets quieter in the way that only happens when everyone is exactly where they want to be.
Then the chocolate tart arrives.
Dark chocolate. Biscuit base. The kind of thing that doesn't announce itself — it just lands on the table and makes the evening complete.
Some desserts try to do everything. This one knows exactly what it is. And that's precisely why you'll remember it.
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
13/05/2026
The stories about who checked into the Sebel Townhouse read like a tour rider for the decade. The Stones. The Faces. Half the acts that played Hordern Pavilion wanted to escape crazed fans — and this was where they came.
The hotel is gone now. The address isn't. The same stretch of Elizabeth Bay Road that quietly hosted musicians and superstars who just wanted a home away from home.
We think Mick might have loved the Campanelli alla Norma — eggplant, napoletana sauce, cacio ricotta — with a glass of Cantina Cellaro Nero d'Avola from Sicily alongside. Some things just make sense.
Today, it's a restaurant serving Southern Italian favourites. Come for lunch.
Thursday through Sunday. Same address. Different soundtrack.
The Sebel Townhouse is gone. The address remains. So does the energy.
📍 Divino Osteria · Elizabeth Bay | 🔗 Lunch bookings — link in bio
12/05/2026
WORLD COCKTAIL DAY TODAY!
Happy hour from 3 pm to 5 pm.
(We know, it's 2 hours, but who's counting.)
Along the southern coast, the evening begins with something bright over ice.
Not to mark the end of the day — but to announce the start of the night.
The Limonberry Bliss. Vodka, limoncello, lemon, raspberry.
Sharp, sweet, and unmistakably Italian in spirit.
Today is World Cocktail Day. Come celebrate at Divino, Elizabeth Bay.
The link is in the bio. The rest you know.
📍 Elizabeth Bay, Sydney
11/05/2026
Happy hour is from 3 pm to 5 pm TODAY.
In southern Italy, the aperitivo has always been less about the drink and more about the hour.
The moment the day softens. The table fills. The conversation begins before anyone has ordered.
The Bicicletta — Campari, Pinot Grigio, soda, orange — is exactly that kind of drink. Unhurried.
Unassuming. Completely Italian.
Come for the drink. Stay for everything after.
Bookings at the link in bio.
📍 Elizabeth Bay, Sydney
10/05/2026
Pan-seared duck breast, smoked pear jus, charred leeks, beetroot purée.
In Southern Italy, autumn arrives quietly. The heat softens. The markets shift. Figs give way to darker things — chestnuts, porcini, game. The kitchen follows.
Duck has always belonged to this season. Crispy skin — the kind that takes patience and a hot pan and nothing else. Beneath it, the meat stays rose-pink. Exactly where it should be.
The smoked pear jus does the quiet work. It's been reducing long enough to carry real depth — fruit and smoke and something darker underneath. The charred leeks bring bitterness where you need it. The beetroot purée anchors the plate with colour and earth.
This is autumn in the south, done the Divino way. You don't need to book a flight.
We're pouring the 2020 Poggio al Tesoro 'Il Seggio' Bolgheri DOC alongside — Merlot-led, dark berries, a thread of mocha running through it. Tuscany in a glass, sitting next to Southern Italy on the plate.
GF · DF
📍 Divino Osteria, Elizabeth Bay
🇮🇹 Southern Italy, without the flight — link in bio.
09/05/2026
World Cocktail Day coming up 13 May Wednesday — and tonight, we're honouring the classics the way they were meant to be enjoyed.
Birth of the Negroni:
Florence. 1919.
A count grows tired of his Americano and asks for something with more conviction.
The bartender reaches for gin. One small substitution. One permanent entry into the Italian canon.
Sip slowly, deliberately, with nowhere else to be. Reserve your table at the link in bio.
📍 Elizabeth Bay, Sydney
Address
1/19-21 Elizabeth Bay Road
Sydney, NSW
2011
To reach your destination at Elizabeth Bay Road in Sydney, you have a couple of convenient options:
**Public Transport:**
1. **Train:** Take a train to Kings Cross Station on the Eastern Suburbs Line. From the station, it's about a 10-minute walk. Exit the station and head east on Victoria Street, then turn left onto Elizabeth Bay Road.
2. **Bus:** You can also take a bus that stops near Elizabeth Bay Road. Look for routes that service the area, such as those departing from Circular Quay or Central Station. Check local schedules for the most convenient option.
**Driving/Parking:**
1. If you're driving, head towards Elizabeth Bay via Macleay Street or William Street depending on your starting point.
2. There is limited street parking available along Elizabeth Bay Road and nearby streets, so be sure to check for any parking restrictions.
3. Alternatively, consider using nearby parking facilities if street parking is full.
Make sure to plan ahead for traffic conditions and public transport schedules!
Opening Hours
| Monday |
5am - 10pm |
| Tuesday |
5pm - 10pm |
| Wednesday |
5pm - 10pm |
| Thursday |
12pm - 10pm |
| Friday |
12pm - 10pm |
| Saturday |
12pm - 10pm |
| Sunday |
12pm - 10pm |
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What people say
Divino Osteria is a delightful gem located on Elizabeth Bay Road, where the essence of Italy comes alive in every dish. This charming restaurant offers a warm and inviting atmosphere that feels like stepping into a friend's home, making it the perfect spot for both casual dining and special occasions.
The culinary journey at Divino Osteria is led by Head Chef Andrea Di Stefano, whose Sicilian heritage shines through in the menu. Each dish is crafted with fresh, high-quality ingredients that celebrate the bold and authentic flavors of southern Italian cuisine. The commitment to genuine hospitality ensures that every guest feels welcomed and valued, enhancing the overall dining experience.
Whether you're indulging in classic pasta dishes or savoring expertly paired wines, Divino Osteria promises to captivate your senses and leave you with lasting memories. With its blend of traditional recipes and modern flair, this restaurant is truly a celebration of Italy's rich culinary heritage.
