Firma Italian

FIRMA Italian brings a rich and authentic casual Italian dining experience featuring the flavours of southern Italy to the base of Hotel Emporium in South Brisbane.

FIRMA (“signature” in Italian) offers freshly sourced, flavourful local ingredients in appealing, authentic and inclusive Italian dishes that are big on comfort and taste and welcoming of dietary requirements.

Italian Chef Alba Rizzo helms the FIRMA kitchen, sharing her Italian background in Lombardy through genuine cuisine enhanced by the finest seafood and seasonal produce from Queensland providores.

Rizzo has sourced a specialist rice grain for her silky, rich Lombard risottos and will utilise a European hot stone cooking method for perfect steaks.

The menu is rich in flavours that reflect Lombard signatures, such as risotto Milanese, slow-cooked ossobuco, pork agnolotti and soft polenta, with agnolotti and ossobuco part of Rizzo's heritage. 

FIRMA also features a tiramisu dessert trolley recreating the delectable Italian dessert of coffee-soaked sponge, whipped mascarpone cream and shaved chocolate curls tableside for two ($30) plus a martini and negroni trolley along with a carefully curated selection of Italian wines not available anywhere else in Australia.

Sourced directly from the vineyards, guests can savour top Italian DOCG and DOC drops from Piedmont and Tuscany such as Cerbaia Brunello di Montalcino, Brandini Barolo and Giacosa Fratelli reds and Arneis and Vermentino whites, available by the glass or bottle.

Good to know - Diners can also savour $60 and $120 set shared menus, plus a special Nonna’s Table setting in a private 12-seat dining room that is ideal for families and get-togethers.

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