Ciao Cielo

Loved our dining experience at Ciao Cielo! Also liked the idea that it also caters to a more casual dining experience outdoors too. We didn’t make a booking and were lucky to have an available table! The venue itself has a beautiful ambience with its fittings, lighting and soft background music. Staff were friendly when they greeted us and shown to our table. Our food also came out in good time and I loved the flavour of the Inked pasta with spinner crab and chilli! I highly recommend it. Thank you for a wonderful evening and will definitely be back! Compliments to the team 💓

I had a dinner here on a Friday night. The staff were extremely friendly and lovely. The restaurant is very wheelchair and pram accessible. We started off with the beef tartare and the freshly shucked oysters. The entree’s were so fresh and delicious. We ordered the shhh! Pizza and the organic gnocchi with oxtail ragu. Both were fantastic. We finished our meal with their tiramisu, which was amazing! 10/10 for food and accessible. For my see my full review in Instagram @adventurewheels_melb

Ciao Cielo is everything that's right about our Melbourne food culture! Good food, great service and none of the bullsh!t pretentiousness you get from other restaurants. The venue has a great garden area and we enjoyed small plates and some great drinks. The calamari was so fresh and the oysters were to die for. Can't wait to come back and try the rest of the menu.

I took some friends visiting from NYC to Ciao Cello, and wow did it deliver! The food is next level, seasonal and full of flavour, like a little tour of Italy on a plate. You can tell there’s real passion behind every dish, and the menu changes to keep things interesting. The service was super friendly and welcoming, none of that stuffy, over-the-top vibe, just genuinely great hospitality. And let’s be real, a bonus shoutout to the head chef, Bryan—talented and easy on the eyes! hahaha 😍 My friends were seriously impressed, which says a lot. If you’re after incredible Italian food in Port Melbourne with a side of good vibes, this is the spot. Can’t wait to go back! 🍝🍷🔥

Pretty good spot for a dinner out. Close to Port Melbourne and St Kilda. Doesn't have a whole lot of indoor dining but does have plenty of outdoor dining. Although, it may not be ideal for winter date nights. Had some vegetarian food here. The pizza was great. Really strong on flavor and generous in size. The pistachio pasta was good, but lacked some flavor. The staff were nice and attentive and the food came out quickly. Good for a summer night. My guess is it would be packed during summer.

Great all round dining experience. The main dining room is just majestic. Service is spot on and the food is absolutely delicious. Also very pretty outdoor areas too

Beautiful space! And I cannot fault anything we ate: the scallops, beef tartare and zucchini flowers all sublime. We also had the inked spaghetti and rigatoni with burrata & pistachio - perfect portions and ended with tiramisu. My favourite cocktail is the lychee tingle but also enjoyed the Passionfruit spritz. Thank you Mel and her colleagues for the amazing service

The staff are absolute superstars, they were so kind and had amazing chat with them. The food was beautiful, for entree we had oysters and the chargrill octopus. Fantastic, fabulous. We even ordered more oysters. The mains were also amazing, we had the prawn pizza and the crab ink spaghetti, a side of the cauliflower. The superstar was the crab ink spaghetti pasta, highly recommend. For dessert we got a Nutella icecream and tiramisu. Both were fantastic, the nutella icecream wasn’t heavy nor overly powered Nutella, it was perfect.

Stepping inside Ciao Cielo, you are awed with the great decor. It's gorgeous inside and was possibly an old small church or something. It's quaint and pretty and not too loud, which always is a big help when making conversation. I did find the menu a little limiting. There's not a super wide variety of items, but we made our minds up and dug in. Some of the entrees were really big, and some tiny and pricing doesn't always reflect that when ordering. The mains began to take forever to come out, and tables that ordered after us got theirs first, and eventually when anyone cared to offer an explanation, there were two different answers (which always makes me think they forgot a table). In spite of that, the food was good all around. I had the smoked barramundi croquettes, the margherita pizza and the most delicious brownie with an orange mascarpone. It was SO good. I'd come back again for that alone. Overall ... parking was good, staff were friendly, service slow and spotty, very small pours of wine, staff wearing masks under chin (either wear one or don't), clearing plates away while some are still eating, but the food - which is what you come here for - is really good. I wish there were a few more pastas to choose from, but whatever you order, you know it's going to be delicious. I'd definitely come back again.

A classic Italian restaurant in Port Melbourne! Their decor is absolutely beautiful with high ceilings, and on top of that, the service provided is always above and beyond. We come here quite often to take clients out for lunch. The latest dish we had from here was the grilled fish fillet and it was, as usual, delightful to savour. Their house made pasta and wood fired pizza are also of high quality and delicious. We highly recommend for people to visit Ciao Cielo to catch up with important people as the food and ambience is perfect!

Unfortunately this place suffers from a bit of an identity complex. It wants to position itself as high end dining, but just doesn't have the follow through to pull it off. The food here is really yummy, I gotta say that. We all loved our dishes. But the seating environment and service and prices just don't add up. For example, our six seater table was made up of different sized tables meaning people had to sit in awkward positions and we had to be careful to stop glasses falling off. The chairs and tables were also all uneven and rocking about, which is really annoying. When I raised these things, one waitress kept telling me "mate, they're two tables" as if I was stupid and didn't understand that we were six people sitting at two tables brought together. I mean, sure, usually I would be willing to laugh that off or overlook it if she just straightup said "hey sorry we don't have standard sized tables". However, why the attitude/sarcastic remarks? And also at $75+ per head, you expect a little more quality/attention to detail than a bunch of mix-matched cafe tables. This sort of inadequate vibe/experience applies to everything in the place, except the food. Just incompetent and half-way service, which really put a damper on everything. Small dish adjustments would really confuse the waiter. The waiter insisted on keeping our wine bottle in the back but we sat with empty glasses for most of the night. Just stuff like that, a lack of attention to detail, constantly. That said. We had a variety of steaks and pastas for mains, and they were all pretty good. However, the bread was hard and seemed like it was straight out of the refrigerator, at which point I couldn't be bothered interacting with the staff anymore and just wanted to enjoy our meal. Basically, at the end of the day, my issue with this place boils down to the pricing. You're paying premium prices for really basic service/ambience and some above average (but not jaw dropping) food. I wouldn't come back I don't think, but we had an okay night all in all.

This place is FANTASTIC !! Best meal and service in Melbourne. I have been walking past here for years and never noticed this little restaurant (big mistake for me) The service has always been brilliant and the food is amazing Highly recommend that everyone has a meal here at least once !!

How have I been bypassing this amazing restaurant all this time? What a little gem. Beautiful, classic Italian / modern European meals, perfectly presented, beautifully fresh and so beautifully balanced. Fresh Italian style bread made on site with house made herb butter & black salt flakes. Yes please... Delicious wine list. Delicious desserts. Flawless & friendly service. Intimate space, beautiful Art Deco style interior, lovely atmosphere. Beautiful lunch menu, an absolute steal at $35 (two courses including wine). Will be bringing friends and family here for sure. x

Ciao Cielo is one of my favourite finds of this year. I have been quite a few times. They do modern European / Italian executed perfectly. It has a relaxed ambient atmosphere and top quality amazing food. At nights they have a Diner menu of which I have sampled a number of dishes; the Prawn Pasta, lamb rack, and the and the Glazed spitchcock Quail stand out in memory. All of the dishes have been fantastic. The Wine List is really great and the staff are more then happy to help in selecting the best drop to go with my meal. Also on weekends they do a great Brunch. The Duck Arrancini balls are a staple I always order. There is a breakfast and lunch menu available on the weekends, with really good coffee to go with it. The service is always friendly and professional. I keep going back as every time I know it will be a consistently good, enjoyable experience.

My partner and I were after a quick coffee before I headed off to the airport and found Ciao Cielo. An amazing little Italian cafe. I ordered my usual hot chocolate and I have to admit after travelling through Europe and never thinking Australia could top my tasting experiences, this by far was the most delicious and mouth watering hot chocolate I have ever had. I cannot wait to go back there again... I think it has become my new local and I am definitely looking forward to trying some of their food on the menu!

The place has moved but largely the same. Good food but totally underwhelmed by the lack of service; we had to continually ask for drinks throughout the night". They had to come back to retake our food Ofer because they threw out the order. The head server has a bit of an attitude being rather indifferent to the poor service. Would I go back again? Well the food was good but not that compelling to outweigh the rest of the experience. Melbourne has a lot of better experiences very close by on offer.

You shouldn't yelp during a meal - it's generally considered impolite. But I couldn't help yelping at Ciao Cielo, especially when I tasted the Beetroot and Ricotta Ravioli with Moreton Bay bugtails. This was summer on a plate and showed cooking skills at the highest level. It's a fresh, light dish and this is a fresh, light restaurant, with service and a welcome to match. Whether you are passing through Port Melbourne or live nearby, I would really recommend a visit.