La Favola's Italian is in Newtown. Favola is one of the Sydney's best pasta restaurants. It offers a modern casual Italian design, with a focus on fresh food and outstanding customer service. It's a choose your own adventure of the carb kind. At this Newtown joint, it's all about marrying your preferred pasta shape with one of six sauces. Fabio Stefanelli kick starting his career at Michelin-starred La Terrazza in the Eden Hotel in Rome after completing a Diploma of Hospitality, Fabio travelled Italy, England, Ireland and Russia in search of new techniques to discover creative food and wine flavours. The menu has been crafted to offer dishes made entirely in house, with a fusion of native Australian ingredients and Italian traditions, as seen in choices like Tucker Dal Bush – bush meats with native spices and mountain thyme. "You do this job with passion or not at all,” Fabio explains. "I want diners to experience what I still feel after so many years doing this job - when I touch