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MELBOURNE is embracing comfort food, especially seeing the opening of venues serving French and Italian-inspired menus. It’s going to be a bright 2020!

Inspired by the informal osteria of northern Italy, chef Nicola Romano and manager Osvaldo Tognella have opened Oster Eatery on Bridge Rd, Richmond.

Romano and Tognella are both from Lombardy in northern Italy but actually met in Melbourne in late 2015 when Tognella took a job at Artusi in Southbank where Romano was head chef. The pair connected, both having had extensive

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