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Zappa now offer online catering
With the launch of our new website, we're excited to offer all of our catering clients, the ability to simply and easily place your catering orders online.
It's simple and makes the job so......
The Best Gnocchi
It is an age-old tradition in Italy, particularly Rome, to dine on gnocchi every Thursday. At Zappa, we choose to continue this tradition, and so it is that every Thursday we serve the sumptuous......
A mother of a place!
Melbourne Coffee Review
A cafe dedicated to the infamous Frank Zappa begs attention! I stepped into a time warp when I entered and I was instantly greeted by the very......
Wine Food Hotel feature Cafe Zappa
Café Zappa has recently featured on the website Wine Food Hotel when they visited us exclusively to film our home made gnocchi Thursdays. Café Zappa has recently featured on the......
The Age Cheap Eats
The Age Cheap Eats 2005 "HOME-MADE fare served quickly, cheaply and with Italian brio has kept this place popular with South Melbourne's with-it crowd for more than six years......
Mietta's Review
Resting on Emerald Hill like a big meatball on top of spaghetti, Café Zappa is South Melbourne's lunch time Mecca. Employees of the local arts, film and television companies swarm for the......
Excellence Award
City Of Port Phillip Business Excellence Award 2004
Beachcomber Café hospitality Sector Award
"The key strengths of Zappa are its consistency and quality......
The Age Review
Let's face it, we men are simple things. Hardly intricate machinery, more like a trusty screwdriver. Easy to operate and delivering predictable results. Sometimes we'll screw things up, sometimes......
The Age Epicure Review
The Age, Epicure Unexplored Territory, Matt Preston, 25/2/2003.
"Good, honest cafe food including home-made pasta dishes and pre-made pied sandwiches and baguettes.......
Emerald Hill Times
Frank Zappa, the musician, required all members of his band to be able to play several instruments and the vision at Zappa is the same - with staff ultimately being proficient in many of the key......