If there's a better day than Friday for going out for a long lunch, then I'm yet to discover it.

If you're the sort of person who is partial to a long lunch, there's only one place in the entire world to be this Sunday.

Food, especially their mother's cooking played a pretty important role in Gino and Tony Darienzo's childhood.

Bread and wine. It's all you need really, except for that "book of verses underneath the bough...and though beside me, singing in the wilderness".

For more than five years, the D'Arienzo family has served up Italian fare based on recipes from their home in central Italy along the Adriantic coast.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine - substitute some glossy mags and a couple of pavement umbrellas for the book of verses and the bough, and Omar Khayyam's vision just about comes true...

Legendary restaurant Pane e Vino, at the corner of Albert and Charlotte streets, attracted a big-name crowd to its 10th birthday celebrations.