Tag: functions

Happy 20th Birthday to us!

Posted on September 29, 2023 by Taylor - Blog, Coming Up, Uncategorised

On Grand Final Day 2003 we flung open our Ladro Fitzroy doors for the very first time, right here on Gertrude Street. Yep, we’re 20 years young!
To celebrate, we’re serving birthday Prosecco all Grand Final day on us – join is from 12noon, we’d love to see you.

With dejavu feels, Collingwood & Brisbane Lions actually played in the 2003 GF too. Twenty years ago the Lions put on a dominant second quarter with five strong goals to Collingwood’s one, stealing the premiership cup. Fast forward to 2023, and we’re still spinning pizza PIES and tapping into to our original FITZOY roots to support the Lions.

SALUTE!

EASTER HOURS 2021

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Taylor - Blog, Coming Up, Uncategorised

We’re only closing for the main Easter public holidays this year for a quick break with family and friends.

Easter Hours
Prahran & Fitzroy

Thursday – Open
Good Friday – Closed
Saturday – Closed
Sunday – Closed
Monday – Closed
Tuesday – Open

We hope you get some down time after a crazy year to eat, drink and relax.
Support local businesses and communities…We need you more than ever.
Buona Pasqua.

XO

Gnocchi Flight Night

Posted on September 15, 2019 by Taylor - Blog, Coming Up, Uncategorised

Come Flight with us!
Every Wednesday night we invite you to Gnocchi Flight Night in Prahran and Fitzroy. For $25pp you can feast on 3 x gnocchi flavours (our personal favourites), handmade by our gnocchi obsessed chefs.

Our soft pillowy dumplings have garnered a bit of a cult following over the past 15 years for good reason. We make our gnocchi daily using only the finest ingredients and in true Italian tradition keep our sauces simple.

The current Gnocchi Flight Night menu includes:

GNOCCHI ALLA SORRENTINA

Sugo, Mozzarella di Bufala, Basil, Parmigiano

GNOCCHI BIANCA

Burnt Butter and Crispy Sage

GNOCCHI AL RAGU DI CAPRA

12 Hour Goat Ragu with Majoram, Oregano and Basil

Vegetarians can be catered for (sorry vegans & gluten free-ers), simply let your waiter know you’re a vegetarian upon arrival and our chefs will adjust the menu.

Tap Beer* & Wine Flights are also being served for $15 pp when you order your Gnocchi Flight.
So get to Ladro on Wednesday nights and grab your boarding pass for Flight Night.
Bookings recommended.

Make booking in FITZROY
Make a booking in PRAHRAN

*Tap Beer Flights in Prahran only.

PS: GNOCCHI MAKING CLASSES ARE COMING IN FEB 2020…Stay tuned

Functions – $35 ‘Feed Me Menu’

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Taylor - Blog, Coming Up, Uncategorised, Uncategorized

Our new $35 Feed Me Menu is perfect for lunchtime functions and seated dinners. It caters for all dietary needs so everyone will enjoy the feast. Gluten free, vegan, dairy free and other dietary options are available upon request. The $35 Feed Me can be adapted to suit stand-up functions within our function spaces, or you can simply select one of our stand up & cocktail menus.

Ladro is ideal for functions and events of all sizes and occasions whether intimate gatherings, special celebrations, presentations and launch events.

Our stunning spaces, marble tables and minimal Italian interior spaces can be a arranged to suit your occasion and styled to create the perfect atmosphere. AV equipment available includes a ceiling mounted projector with built in screen in Prahran and microphones with zoned audio. We love live music and welcome bands and ensembles and if you want us to take all the hard work out of organising live music, we have exclusive access to some of the finest music makers Melbourne has to offer.

Of course if dancing is a must, we arrange a dance floors to boogie the night away. Our Prahran restaurant has a 24 hour licence so you can dance til you drop!

Set the scene with our local award winning florist Flowers Vassette . They create stunning table pieces right through through to ceiling mounted floral arrangements for dramatic effect. Our resident designer will also create stunning greenery or floral pieces when you want a more minimal aesthetic. Let us know your thoughts and we’ll organise a customised quote.

Download our latest functions and events guide here or take a look at our functions page here.

Begin planning your event now with Ladro. We’re just an email or phone call away and we’d love to hear from you. Remember to check out our new ‘Feed Me $35’ Menu!

Email us at events@ladro.com.au
OR call 9510 2233

#worldstoughestjob MOTHERS DAY

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Taylor - Blog, Coming Up, Uncategorised, Uncategorized

We challenge you to watch #worldstoughestjob and not feel compelled to give their mama a giant hug! Treat her this Mothers Day… and everyday after!

Ask your mama what she wants to do this Mothers Day…Here’s what our mama’s want more than anything in the world:
Q: What would you like to do this Mothers Day?
– “a home made card with words to treasure”
– “pizza of course”
– “a hand made mug and a pair of wooly socks”
– “SLEEP”
– “lunch with the family”

We asked our mama’s what their favourite dishes are. Not surprisingly they said: pizza, roast, bubbles and chocolate came up A LOT!
So these are the extra special mama loving dishes we are serving alongside our usual menu this Mothers Day. Be sure to make a booking and your mama can enjoy feasting on our mum’s favourite dishes too.

LADRO MOTHERS DAY SPECIALS

PROSECCO
$5 a glass, all day Mothers Day.
HOT MAMA PIZZA
Sopressa, fiore di latte, sugo, fresh basil.
SUPER HOT MAMA PIZZA
Sopressa, fior di latte, sugo, chilli, fresh basil.
PORCHETTA
Spit roasted free range pork, Tuscan slaw, mustard fruits dressing on a brioche bun with extra crackling and rucola insalata.
CANNOLI
Triple chocolate handmade deliciousness.

Of course our usual menu will also be available from brunch, lunch and dinner in both Fitzroy and Prahran. We open at 11am on weekends.
And the best bit is we will be serving $5 Prosecco all day Mothers Day!

Make booking in FITZROY
Make a booking in PRAHRAN

PR-EASTER I Ladro & Ladro TAP

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Taylor - Blog, Coming Up, Uncategorised

Join us for PR-Easter…
Hot cross cannoli, PR-Easter cocktails, Arrosto with Lamb & soft polenta and a special PR-Easter Pizza with pumpkin, gorgonzola and caramelised onion.

We love any excuse to feast with family and friends but PR-Easter means we get to feast endlessly on one of our favourite food groups – hot cross buns! This year we’ve taken all the best bun bits and created a hot cross cannoli.
We’ll be serving the chocolate shells filled with ricotta, studded with vine fruits, citrus rind and spices in Fitzroy & Prahran until Easter Friday.
Our other PR-Easter specials will only be served in Prahran.

EASTER OPENING HOURS

FITZROY
OPEN – Thursday 18 April
CLOSED – Good Friday
CLOSED – Easter Saturday
CLOSED – Easter Sunday
CLOSED – Easter Monday
OPEN– Tuesday 23 April
OPEN– Wednesday 24 April
CLOSED – Anzac Day
OPEN – Friday 26 April
…then business as usual.

PRAHRAN
OPEN – Thursday 18 April
CLOSED – Good Friday
CLOSED – Easter Saturday
CLOSED – Easter Sunday
CLOSED – Easter Monday
OPEN – Tuesday 23 April
OPEN – Wednesday 24 April
CLOSED – Anzac Day
OPEN – Friday 26 April
…then business as usual.

BUONA PASQUA
Love Ladro

…And if you want to know all about the history of Cannoli check out this link.

VEGAN MOZZARELLA? YES!

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Taylor - Blog, Coming Up, Uncategorised, Uncategorized

Vegan mozzarella at Ladro.

Who doesn’t love pizza? Stupid question, of course everyone does. But for some of us, a delicious cheesy pizza is a disaster waiting to happen, for others omitting dairy is simply a lifestyle choice. Now those who can’t eat dairy and those who choose not to, can enjoy feasting on a Ladro pizza without missing out….on the chesse!
Ladro has introduced an amazing handmade vegan mozzarella to the menu, available in both Fitzroy and Prahran for your pizza feasting pleasure.

What’s the cheese?

Traditional mozzarella is made from buffalo milk and cows milk, hand formed into milky balls of curd – when fresh it’s hard not to eat them like apples! Okay, so vegan mozzarella it’s not made from buffalo or cows milks and doesn’t have that same stringy, stretchy, cheesiness we all love, but we reckon it’s the next best thing to the real deal. Our vegan mozzarella is soy based and melts like real cheese with the consistency of real mozzarella. Queen Margherita would be quietly chuffed and happily serve our vegan mozzarella on her namesake pizza.
If you want to experiment making your own vegan cheese, take a look at Julie Piatt’s book “This Cheese is Nuts”.

Feed Me Vegan Menus?

Ladro can also offer vegan Feed Me Menus based on our extremely popular Feed Me $45, $55 and $65 per head options. Simply inform us when you book your next function or event at Ladro and we will devise a seasonal menu for your entire group. Our pizza dough is vegan, as long as you are ok with yeast. We don’t use any animal products in preparation of the Ladro pizza dough and embrace traditional slow proving methods develop our award winning Roman style pizzas. Roman pizzas, unlike their Napoli cousins, are thinner and crispier with an ‘al dente cornicione’, or firm to the bite pizza edge/ crust.

Gluten Free Pizza

We also offer gluten free pizza at Ladro in Fitzroy and Prahran. Our gluten free pizza dough is made in the same traditional method as our conventional pizzas, with yeast and a small amount of extra virgin olive oil, from soya, tapioca, corn and rice flours. We introduced gluten free pizzas 6 years ago at Ladro due to the high incidence of gluten intolerance amongst the Italian population. So if you happen to be a gluten free vegan, we’ve got all the bases covered!

To make a reservation either book online – Fitzroy or Prahran, or call us on
9510 2233

CHRISTMAS FUNCTIONS

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Taylor - Blog, Coming Up, Uncategorised

We can take care of all your Christmas Function organising, with a menu for every price point. From 2 to 200 guests, in either Fitzroy or Prahran, and a 24 hour licence, we have something for everyone.
Let us organise flowers, DJ’s, dance floors and stylists so you can spend more time doing what you should be doing…

…Celebrating with family, friends and workmates!

Simply download our Ladro Functions & Events 2017

Or call or email us and we can answer all your questions.

9510 2233 events@ladro.com.au

BEER DEGUSTATION LADRO X HOLGATE

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Taylor - Blog

Join us for a Masterclass Degustation all about BEER matched to dishes from the Ladro kitchen.

Holgate Brewhouse will be be pouring 5 of their finest beers all made by hand in their Woodend Microbrewery for your drinking pleasure. Meanwhile Ladro chef Arron Edwards will be showcasing 5 great dishes perfectly matched to each beer…
…You’ll also get to speak to the makers and find out everything you’ve ever wanted to know about matching food to beer and making the liquid gold itself.

Seats are limited to our Masterclass events so grab some friends, workmates, or fly solo and book ASAP.

5 x BEERS I 5 x DISHES I 1 x GUEST SPEAKER
$55 pp

6:30 pm [but not kicking off til 7 pm]
Ladro TAP – 162 Greville St Prahran
BOOKINGS: 9510 2233 events@ladro.com.au