Wheat Barrel - Cronulla

Delicious Italian food with some amazing cocktails and great service.

A beautifully located small, casual Italian wine bar restaurant opposite South Cronulla beach. The minute you walk in you are made to feel welcome by the staff. The place is not big with a long bar where you can stand or sit for some drinks antipasti and tables both inside outside for dining. The menu offers all the quintessential Italian dishes with a heavy focus on house made pasta. Antipasti is so well priced perfect to order several to share with drinks whilst you chat decide on the mains. Loved both the pecorino Stracciatella cheeses, fennel studded salami, golden crunchy arancini the house made sourdough which is dense so good doused in olive oil. The pastas are all housemade packs of it can be bought to take home. One of their signature Casarecce Norcino is utterly indulgent delicious. Generous nuggets of pork sausage, mushrooms, truffle paste a dash of cream made this dish earthy full of umami. The gnocchi pomedoro is a classic with light as clouds gnocchi in a beautiful tomato sugo. The baked gnocchi has the same light pasta mixed with broccoli, speckled with pancetta baked in a cheesy creamy sauce making it more warm, comforting perfect for the cooler weather. Ravioli flavours change weekly the classic pumpkin ricotta with burnt butter sage is the best weekly flavour so far very very good. There is also a list of non pasta mains and sides on offer. The wine list is Italian centred, concise and well priced. The well informed staff was helpful in our wine choices not to mention great cocktails on offer also. Desserts are simple a classic ricotta cannoli or the Nutellamisu which is delicious, perfectly balanced between sweet bitter, wet dry. Overall a really enjoyable experience with delicious food drinks, helpful and friendly staff and lovely location.

Amazing food, service and wine/cocktails. First time here and will be back very soon! Staff were all lovely and friendly, knew their stuff. Loved it

Started off disappointing as our order was lost and we waited 45 minutes for just the bread. Normally this wouldn't bother us but it was freezing outside. The maitre d' came over to ask if everything was OK and we were honest and said no. Straight away the Manager came and said he would find us a table inside when available and offered us complimentary drinks. Once we moved inside the waitress was extremely attentive and offered us free desert and lemoncello. The food was amazing and all the staff were apologetic. This was a perfect example of how to recovery from a bad experience, which to be honest, was no one's fault. Mistakes happen and the staff went above and beyond to make it up to us. We will definitely be back and highly recommend to anyone looking for great food and better service.

Top Italian food. Tasty stracciatella cheese. Delicious pastas. Great service from the management team (even when the owners are not there! . Solid. Highly recommend.