Where - 169 Wheatsheaf Rd. Glenroy

Price - $22.90 plus delivery fee if getting delivered

Website - Facebook Page

This week’s review has really highlighted something for me that I had been denying to myself since we started. “Crossing The Road” reviews began as a way to try take-away parmas, the parmas that might not normally get a look in as they aren’t your standard pub that we can drop in on a Thursday night, grab a few pints and a feed.

We have had some good ones since starting Crossing the Road, however they are few and far between, with the majority of the home delivered parmas falling squarely into the category of “meh”.

What our visit to Nonna Rosa this week cemented in my mind is that the “meh” is not coming from the restaurants themselves (mostly), but from the transportation process. Parmas don’t travel well at the best of times, and what you are about to read is the perfect case study of how one tiny decision can produce two vastly different parma experiences.

Let’s be honest, there’s another reason that Crossing the Road exists - It exists for the weeks when I’ve had a long day, the weather is shitty, there’s a good episode of Survivor on 9Go and I just cannot be fucked going out for a parma that week. Last night was one of those weeks (except for the Survivor, the whole “Island of the Idols” gimmick this season really isn’t doing it for me this season, but I could write a whole seperate blog on my opinions of Survivor and now isn’t the time). I finished work, put on some trackie dacks, cracked open my phone and had a look around for a parma that would come to me with minimal effort … And I found it in “Nonna Rosa”, an Italian Family Restaurant in Glenroy.