Celebrate Special Occasions at Piatella

Celebrating a company milestone? Planning your Christmas dinner? Organising a birthday get together with beloved family and friends?

Whatever your special occasion is, here are some of the reasons why Piatella Café Bar is the ideal spot for larger group bookings and your next celebration feast.

Diverse Menu

Serving modern Australian cuisine with a European flair, Piatella’s diverse menu is perfect for both a la carte or for sharing and can cater to various dietary requirements. With options including the Seafood Platter, American Style Smoked BBQ menu, classic pasta and risotto, as well as Piatella’s well known house made crepes and waffles – there is something for everyone. Click to view our full menu here.

Fully Licensed Restaurant

Not forgetting to mention Piatella’s extensive alcohol list, with beers, wines, ciders, spirits, as well as an impressive cocktail list. No special occasion or celebration is complete without celebratory drinks!

Inviting Atmosphere

The venue draws inspiration from New York loft-style architecture, with soft timber frames, clean white walls and a rustic exposed brick bar. This creates a sophisticated yet inviting and relaxed atmosphere with a comfortable vibe – perfect for large groups or corporate gatherings.  

Convenient Location

Access to Piatella Café Bar is a breeze. It’s convenient location at 88 Kingsway, Glen Waverley, is right outside Century City Village Cinemas and only a short walk from Glen Waverley train station.

Piatella is open 7 days a week until late. So, whether you’re after a breakfast meeting, corporate lunch, End of Year Christmas dinner, or perhaps a special occasion celebration over dessert, Piatella is the perfect location.

For bookings or to see the menu, visit the website at www.piatella.com.au or call 03 9562 1700

Piatella’s American-style BBQ is on fire

The Australian BBQ is a long-standing tradition in everyday Australia. In recent years, however, American-style BBQ has emerged as a popular alternative too.

American BBQ goes back centuries and there’s a colony of pit masters located everywhere from Texas to Georgia who all have their own special spin on making syrupy ribs and tender brisket to die for.

American-style BBQ aficionados know that some of the most delicious characteristics of American BBQ are the wood the meat is smoked with, the rub of seasoning and the tang of the sauce.

Piatella Cafe Bar, in the heart of Glen Waverley’s highly-regarded retail and restaurant district Kingsway, knows this.

Piatella’s Beef Brisket

Piatella, a multicultural cafe inspired by European culture and cuisine, might not be a down-home rib joint, but it knows its BBQ intimately.

Its menu is produced out of a custom-made Manhorne smoker, machinery fit for winning BBQ competitions and the hearts of BBQ aficionados around the world.

Piatella fires up its Manhorne smoker to make BBQ dishes with a full-bodied smokey flavour.

The lunchtime pick is the American Style Reuben Sandwich, smoked BBQ beef brisket with apple slaw, sliced pickles, Swiss cheese, American mustard and house-made BBQ sauce, dressed in fresh bread and accompanied with beer batter chips and aioli.

At dinner time, prepare to be floored by Southern comfort food nirvana. The chicken and pork on the dedicated American-Style Smoked BBQ menu is smokes with faintly sweet apple wood and the beef absorbs a rich hickory.

You’ll have some decisions to make at Piatella. Namely, whether you want the divinely aromatic beef brisket, pulled pork shoulder or beef/pork ribs.

What is for sure is that each serve comes with creamy coleslaw, chargrilled corn on the cob, pickles, beer batter chips, crispy onion rings, and two dipping sauces.

Before or after a night out seeing a movie or bowling in Glen Waverley’s Kingsway, Piatella is the perfect place to enjoy American BBQ with an extensive beer, wine and spirits list.

Piatella is a sweet plan for dessert

Dinner is customarily the headline event that restaurants focus on to draw diners for a night out. But there’s plenty of upside in elevating dessert to headline status too. In fact, some restaurants are so adept at dessert menus that they specialise in them exclusively. And others count desserts as one of their main trump cards amongst their wider menu.

Piatella, a versatile cafe and bar in the heart of Glen Waverley, is a haven for desserts.

Piatella - Milo and Oreo Waffles

A popular stop for locals and visitors who flock to Glen Waverley’s Kingsway — a bustling epicentre of shopping, dining and entertainment options — for everything from cinema to bowling to karaoke, the cafe restaurant is an ideal way to cap the fun or continue it.

We all know how good dessert can be when it’s done right.

Piatella — also a big draw for breakfast, lunch, dinner and more — has a substantial dessert section on its menu that largely revolves around crepes and waffles.

Piatella - Apple Pie Crepe

Not just any old crepes and waffles however. We’re talking kitchen-fresh crepes and waffles cocooned in globs of fluffy vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, and loaded with sinful splashes of maple syrup, salted caramel sauce, fresh strawberries and bananas and heapings of green tea mousse.

Feast your imagination on the Berry Ripe, a bundle of sweet waffle blocks warmly blanketed in berry compote, fresh strawberries, cream and maple syrup squirts.

Or maybe Cookies and Cream is your weakness. We are, after all, talking a rocky powder of crumbled chocolate biscuits and a drizzle of vanilla white chocolate ganache on fresh waffles and crepes.

Bananarama is another way to simmer cravings for sweetness too. There’s something irresistibly right about the pairing of bananas and butterscotch sauce on crepes and waffles, no matter which way you look at it.

Wondering what time of day is the best time to head out for dessert? Piatella’s waffles and crepes are available from 5pm Monday-Thursday and all day Friday to Sunday.

The cafe restaurant’s affordable menu of European-inspired desserts also encompasses cakes, macaroons, vegan balls, Piatella waffle sandwiches and Butterbing cookie sandwiches.

A sweet deal?

Indeed.

Piatella's Pasta Menu is an Inspired Taste of Europe

In Glen Waverley’s restaurant precinct, you’ll have no trouble finding venues that specialise in Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese and a wide range of other Asian cuisines.

While it’s well known that Glen Waverley’s restaurant heartland Kingsway is a Mecca of Asian restaurants, a lesser known fact is that you can find quality authentic Italian dishes in Kingsway too.

If you know where to look.

Piatella, a modern Australian restaurant with a European influence, incorporates wide-ranging influences into its menu and counts pasta as one of its crowd favourites.

Bill and Aspa Bourgazas, owners and operators, were inspired to conceive Piatella after a trip to Europe sparked the idea.

And if you were wondering whether it paid dividends, the proof is in the pasta — in the best of possible ways.

Pasta, a staple in a lot of households, can do extraordinary things to a palate in the right hands.

Fresh pasta, boiling in a roomy pot, with generous seasoning and a slither of oil in that narrow window of time between too long and too soon, is the foundation of wide variety of taste-packed dishes.

When you visit Piatella, you’ll encounter a pasta menu featuring a mix of decadent classics.

Spaghetti Marinara, a tasty marriage of plump tiger prawns, scallops, mussels and calamari, splashed with tomatoes, chilli and garlic, and washed in white wine sauce, is the right kind of way to enjoy a lunch time.

Meanwhile, Piatella’s Beef Ragu is traditional European beef ragu, slow-cooked for 12 hours, so it can sponge braised tomato, red wine and oregano. Enjoy it over a warm nest of supple Penne pasta.

Linguini Carbonara, on the other hand, is another Piatella signature. It makes a savoury punch with sautéed kaiserfleish bacon, mushrooms, spring onion and garlic, tossed amongst swirls of creamy egg and white wine sauce, and parmesan cheese.

Amongst the rustic atmosphere, it’s an inviting time to pair your pasta dish with a glass of wine, and Cockfighter’s Ghost Shiraz is one great place to start amongst many.

And with a dessert menu featuring fresh cake varieties, macarons and cookie sandwiches, why stop there?