Vito’s is a new kind of restaurant – with a very old tradition

04 Jun 2026, 19:00 by Jill Dupleix · Australian Financial Review

Jill DupleixFood writer
Jun 5, 2026 – 5.00am

For Brett Sergeant, the nerves started three years ago, when he began dreaming of a restaurant called Vito’s. An ode to the down-home American Italian food that everybody understands and loves, he wanted to package it with the opulence and glamour of a grand night out. “The sort of restaurant where you walk in the door and get hit by the warmth and energy and don’t want to leave,” he says.

The glamour quotient of Vito’s, which will open in September at 11 Bridge Street, Sydney, is high. So is the risk factor, with an estimated $8.5 million being spent on the design and fit-out alone. “We started by thinking we could do it for $5 million,” says Sergeant. “Three years later, it’s grown a bit.”

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