Italian, neighbourhood, wood-fired.
Cin Cin Pizza Cucina is a Wollongong trattoria built around the wood-fired oven, simple Italian cooking, and the kind of long, easy meals that turn a Tuesday into an occasion.
Cooking the way nonna taught us.
We lead with the classics: dough rested overnight, San Marzano tomato base, mozzarella torn by hand, and toppings that earn their place on the pizza. The oven runs hot, the pasta is rolled fresh, and the kitchen leans into the rhythms of an Italian trattoria — straightforward, generous, seasonal.
The cucina menu rotates through pasta and risotti, antipasti to share, secondi for the table, and dolci to finish. Italian wines are picked to match — ask your server, they love this bit.
Above all, Cin Cin is a place to gather. Big tables, long lunches, Friday dinners that stretch into the evening — the kind of nights the toast was made for. Cin cin.
Four things we care about.
Wood-fired tradition
The oven is the heart of the kitchen. Pizze are stretched by hand and finished at high heat for a blistered, charred Italian crust.
Simple, seasonal cooking
Antipasti, fresh pasta and risotti are plated with restraint — the kind of cooking that leans on quality ingredients, not heavy sauces.
Italian hospitality
Long lunches, family dinners, celebrations — Cin Cin is built around the table. Pull up a chair, raise a glass, stay a while.
Wollongong, by way of Italy
A neighbourhood trattoria for the Illawarra, with a menu and atmosphere that nods to Italian regional cooking.
Cin Cin
Come for dinner.
Reserve a table for tonight or your next celebration — we’ll save you a seat by the oven.