La Fettuccina

Best Known For

Veal scaloppine served with creamy mushroom sauce.

Established in 1989, La Fettuccina is a long-standing favourite on Cairns’ dining scene, with almost equally long-standing staff. Patrons have been returning time and again to this iconic restaurant to relax under its awning on bustling Shields Street, or rendezvous in a warm, elegant interior where authentic Italian fare is on the menu. Featuring fresh, housemade pasta and local ingredients sourced from nearby farmlands and the bay's glistening waters, dishes are big in size and flavour. Choose to start with prawns in creamy garlic sauce on a bed of fettuccine, or sautéed squid and house salad; before grilled lamb cutlets, rosemary, capers, white wine sauce, roast potatoes and green beans. Pasta lovers opt for spaghetti with prawns, mushrooms, shallots, garlic and chilli in olive oil.