La Porchetta Restaurant Wagga Wagga

Dinner - La Porchetta We find ourselves on an unplanned stopover in town tonight. We are in a motel room with one chair so dinner at a restaurant, sit down is required, personally we prefer to choose licensed premises. I have dietary requirements - a strict gluten free coeliac - so a quick google on my personal pages and a few options come up. La Porchetta, Italian fare, comes to light. I FB message the restaurant and they promptly reply to my options, for once not just roast of the day (with no gravy) or the market fish. They also personally text me their current menu, highlighting my many options. Being off season, mid week we take the risk and do not book but walk the 500m from our accommodation. The staff friendly, welcoming and extremely accomodating. My beloved is strictly a pizza man but after looking at the menu online was tossing between Nona’s Lasagne, complete with salad or cannelloni, possibly even one of the many pasta dishes. Me, drooling over the many dishes, choose your sauce and the pasta - they have gluten free pasta as well as gf pizza bases too. I ended up selecting the risotto, there were three to choose from, including a vegan choice but the prawn, zucchini & pesto was absolutely delicious and the rice, soft and delicate like a risotto should be. Mr Cannelloni/Lasagne went weak at knees and fell for a, you guessed it… pizza. In his defence there were more than twenty options with add your own extras no issue. He chose the ‘hot&Spicey’ with added egg and olives. Delicious. He got what he ordered - hot&Spicey. His only error here was he ordered the 9” not the 11’ or 13”. He ordered a second. Still half a pizza left for midnight snacks or even breakfast tomorrow. The Gentleman on the table next to us ordered the Chicken Parmi. It took him a while but he was not going to let it defeat him. He savoured every mouthful. There was even room for desert with a very large selection on offer. I forgo the GF chocolate mouse or pancetta but he chose the sticky date with vanilla ice cream, homemade but just as delicious as the main course. Will definitely be back next time we are in town - thank you for a great meal, at very reasonable prices.

amazing vegan and gluten free feast! has an entire vegan menu plus additional vegan options. lovely service