Lucio's Italian Restaurant

Owner Lucio Galletto has been serving sophisticated Italian food to media and political heavyweights and artists (whose work lines the walls) for well over 25 years. He came to Australia from Liguria in 1977 from a family of restaurateurs, and has been continuing the family tradition of great hospitality ever since.

Lucio’s opened in Balmain in 1981 and two years later moved to the current site in Windsor St. In January 2008 Lucio's will celebrate 25 years in Paddington.Lucio is a founding member and treasurer of CIRA  -  Council of Italian Restaurants In Australia which is a non-profit association whose main aims are to promote partnerships with educational and training institutions, create synergies with cultural organizations; encourage research and publications on Italian food; and organize programs of Italian food scholarship.

In 1999 Lucio published “The Art of Food at Lucio’s”, a runaway success with all 3 print runs sold out  An exciting new book "Soffritto" (lived by Lucio Galletto, written by David Dale with photography by Paul Green) was published in November 2007 - please see the link on the left for more on this, and later in 2008 a book of recipes and anecdotes from his beloved Lunigiana will be published.