Putia Pure Food Kitchen is a licensed 80 seater, family friendly suburban al fresco style dining space with a focus on whole fresh foods with a unique twist. As well as an ever changing seasonal menu, Putia showcases a delicious selection of salads, cakes and sweets all made fresh daily, for dine in or takeaway. The range of dishes and boutique drinks prepared in Putia’s open kitchen reflect our love of diverse cuisines with a focus on freshness and simplicity, featuring local produce and edible herbs and flowers from our own garden. Our variety of unique and affordable cooking classes and events showcase the delicious products that are available for sale at Putia Pantry and also utilise our home-grown garden produce.

“PUTIA” is an old Sicilian word for local store or a little shop selling food and wine and household items, usually adjoining or under neighbouring apartments and houses. It derives its origins from the Spanish word bodega (bottega) , meaning cellar or warehouse of food and wine and the studio of a master artist. Putias still exist today in Sicily where locals come and shop for their daily food products, exchanging stories, recipes and catching up on the local community happenings. This is all very familiar to Dominique Rizzo who is of Sicilian heritage. Sicily is where her father was born, where she visited as a young child on many family holidays, where she was influenced through the lifestyle, cooking, and ingredients and where she shopped at the Putia with her Sicilian Nonna. It is this passion for sharing the Mediterranean flavours that has fuelled Dominique’s food tours to Sicily, her cook book, recipe writing and now her latest venture, Putia Pure Food Kitchen. Putia reflects the diversity of food influences which Dominique loves to cook and is well known for including using flavours from Spain, Greece, France, Morocco, North Africa, Arab and the Americas. They reflect the wonderful European family hospitality and the warmth and sharing philosophy she lives by.