In the heart of Armadale’s High Street in Melbourne, between Lune Croissanterie and fine-diner Amaru, sits a little Italian trattoria, Zia Rina’s Cucina. It’s co-owned and run by long-time friends and chefs Adrian Li and Danny Natoli, who met while working together at beachfront institution, Donovan’s.
“At Zia Rina’s customers would walk up to Danny and go ‘hey mate, how are you going?’ and Danny would be like ‘this is Adrian’ and then they’d look at my hand extended out for them and just bow. Every time it would happen Danny would piss himself laughing. It was one of those funny memories I had and it happened for like three or four months until they realised ‘this
