Franco & Co

The Italian food in this restaurant is quite delicious, especially the aroma coming from the oven-baked pizza oven is very exciting and tempting. The interior of the restaurant has the warmth of home, with gardens, flowers, and vines, which is both satisfying and satisfying. The belly is very healing.

Great spot for a quick dinner if you want to be in & out. Make sure to book, even on a Monday! Pizza traditional style & fantastic. Rissotto delicious, could have be a bigger serving. Cocktails were fabulous

Edit: the food was excellent!

I haven’t even eaten yet. I’m literally seating on the terrace but I don’t need to try the food to leave this review because:
The sunset is shining on this beautiful weather board house like restaurant, the owner was the one welcoming my partner and I when we entered and my night is already made! I’m very happy about my experience.

Pizza Pizza Pizza. Great pizza.
Looking forward to dining in at the first opportunity.
Still one of the best for good food, friendly faces and service.
Thanks guys.

Lovely ambience, delicious company and friendly and efficient staff. Really enjoyed this place, which caught my eye some time ago. Def will be back.:)

Thank the lord, we've finally found a place in our area that does pizza with the PROPER Neapolitan base!
Had lunch here recently, and my family and I thoroughly enjoyed our meals. The squadron of young ladies that seemed to make up the entire wait staff were all very lovely and helpful.
Have had takeaway pizzas since then that were just as yum as when we ate there.
Franco is at the top of the favourite-takeaways list at home.
Thanks girls!

Franco & Co

6.2/10
3/5

Before you go

- 10% Surcharges on weekends
- Not many of gluten free options
- Not operating a gluten free kitchen

Service 4/5

- Seated straight away
- Served instantly
- Drinks came chilled and free chilled water

Environment 3/5

- Nice tables and atmosphere
- Nice view

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Entree

Chicken Skewers 2.7/5

- 2 Skewers with a sauce
- Skewers are a bit bland but the sauce was very tasty
- Garnishes are random and not very fitting for the dish
- Not worth the price tag of $20

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Mains 4/5
Chips & salad 2.5/5

Parma

- Parma was sensational. An excellent sauce and very tasty cheese made the experience worth it
- Chips were cooked perfectly and salted nicely
- Salad dressing unfortunately covered the plate and made the chips soggy, cold and distasteful
- Salad was nice but overall damaged the meal

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Prawn Pasta

- Prawns were cooked perfectly
- Good amount of both pasta and prawns
- Good sauce
- Good serving size

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Dessert

Churros 2.6/5

- A good amount of churros
- Cooked well
- Lacked a dusting of sugar which left a little bland
- Chocolate sauce being in plate instead of a dish felt tacky and wasteful
- Fairy floss on top felt out of place
- Ice cream was a nice addition but was lost once again due to not being in a small dish

Seafood pizza was good. Carbonara so so, seemed like it may have been microwaved.
Chips portion size is large.
Surcharge of 10 on Sunday.
Very slow to provide menus after being seated.

This place is amazing, love the food and service great service yummy food awesome cocktails:) also good atmosphere

Second visit in as many weeks during a busy Saturday lunch.
We made reservations for our group of 5 to ensure we snagged a good table. Grandpa pizza and Lemon Paprika Calimari ordered again as we enjoyed them so much last time.
Also ordered a Capricosa, a Marinara pizza as well as an Arrabiata pasta dish.
Everything was again amazing, service with a smile, tasty delicious food with premium ingredients and a friendly family atmosphere.
Only negative was that the generous serve of Arrabiata with Penne pasta which had a huge amount of sausage in it. WAY too salty, I suspect from the sausage, but it may have been the sauce. Chef needs to check on it as everyone tried it with similar feedback. Hope it's just a one off.
Original 5* review:
Wow, wow, wow!
Franco and Co in Eltham is a real suprise. Located in a refurbished weatherboard house they have lots of off street parking onsite, although when we visited for a Sunday dinner it was close to full.
Warm ambience inside with a single, large, open plan room, open fireplace which would be a focal point in winter, and the large, beautiful woodfire oven used for their amazing pizzas. The menu is not huge but there are a good range of pizzas with pastas, schnitzel, entree, desserts etc.
Something for everyone, although there is a warning on the menu that this is NOT a Gluten Free Kitchen, if that's important for you.
Good range of drinks as well, cocktails, wines, local and imported beers and ciders etc.
Staff were friendly and attentive without being pushy and service was quite quick.
We shared the entree sized lemongrass skewers with a smokey paprika dip, moist and flavourful.
The woodfired pizzas were some of the best we've had: perfectly cooked, crispy leopard skin edges with just the right thickness. Generous top quality ingredients, without being "over the top" so the flavour and texture of the hero, the perfect crust, shines through.
We had the Grandpa (Margherita with prosciutto, rocket and parmesan flakes) and the Hot and Spicy (Salami, roast peppers, onion, mozzarella, fresh red chilli and tomato). Both superb.
We also shared the lemon paprika calimari with chips and salad and Chipotle aoli, a very generous serve and again some of the best tasting and cooked calamari we've had.
Definitely coming back here to try some of the other traditional menu items as well as novelties like the intriguing "Velvet Beetroot Latte"

Fantastic food and service. The best place to eat whether inside or out. Great selection of food and beverages.

Tried booking for a dinner from their website. It requires all my credit card information.
After what happened to CBA, OPTUS and others I don’t trust leaving my credit card details for a local restaurant. Why make things hard for your customers. Review this produces please.

Great spot for some lunch - generous servings - able to handle a couple or a family group. I'd suggest you book in a meal. The coffee was great too

Franco & Co is a cozy Italian restaurant in Eltham. From the outside it looks like a very beautiful cottage, and there is a lot of outdoor seating and in door seating.

Here you may find cute dogs outside as it is a dog friendly restaurant. On the inside you can also see how the woodfired pizza gets made.

When I came here for lunch with a friend we ordered:
The Franco wood fired pizza - which contained Italian pork sausage, broccoli, chilli, flor di latte & tomato - this tasted better than I expected as I normally don't have broccoli on my pizza. I really enjoyed it.

Slow Lamb ribs with shichimi togarashi marinade - this was very well marinated and had a lot of flavour.

Churros with Nutella and vanilla bean ice cream - The churros would have to be my favourite.

& for drinks we ordered:
French martini
Moscow mule - mock tail version

Would recommend this place for a cute lunch/ dinner catch up with friends or a date!

Great restaurant, the staff are friendly, the linguini is delicious I recommend people who live nearby to try it! And the atmosphere here is good, very suitable for celebrating Christmas!

We arrived for dinner with a large group, to celebrate my wife's birthday. We ordered off the wide array of options on the kids menu and for the adults. Excellent choices and delicious! Wood fire oven pizza's, pastas and chicken parmas were fantastic. The atmosphere was great, along with service being top notch. Easy private parking access.

Dined with friends for lunch and really enjoyed the relaxed environment, the food was quality and tasty, staff were friendly and accommodating. Thanks:)

Definitely reccomend the Miss Green pizza.

Plenty of vegan & vegetarian options, One of the best pizza's I've had in a long time.

Really impressed with our delivery last night. Pizza arrived quickly and piping hot. Fresh high quality ingredients on a thin base. The Miss Green was absolutely amazing, the veggies were crispy and actually tasted healthy. The artichoke pesto - I want the recipe

We had a lovely valentines meal thank you to Francis & Adel, the food was lovely, wine was great but most of all service was excellent.thank you we will be back. Kim & Leigh Pridham