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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Al Forno Trattoria revisited

Parma

Pappardelle al Quatro Formaggi

Frittura Mista

the slice before the rest

Medaglioni di Maiale Pancetta


So, the bummer here was that they ran out of gnocchi since it was specifically the thing that I wanted to have from here after eating them from the last visit. The one difference from the others on how they're done here is that the gnocchis are pan fried before being doused with their rich four cheese sauce that while a heavy one, didn't border on being boring at all. The end effect was that it tasted a little like pan fried radish cake. So we ended up with their pappardelle instead, which was by its own right, not bad at all. Thick cut and not overly done from swimming in the boiling pot.

The Parma ham on the pizza was sliced thicker than I remember them, to the point whereby using hands wasn't really an option since I could hardly chew them through without pulling most of it off the pizza. It was decent (a tad pricier than most places), but not as memorable as the previous time I had them. And those fried prawns that came with the calamari aren't really something I'll be excited to come back to again neither.

What was also good, was the pork fillets. I'm talking about thick hearty chunks of pig (tenderloin) wrapped in more pig (bacon) sitting in a brown sauce which I couldn't quite identify, but have no complains about.

One of the old school and no frills Italian places that I find quite pleasant apart from one particular service staff that had a smile that I find a little disquietly disturbing.

1 comments:

pity about the calamari & prawns though...I am just surprised that the pappardelle is such a thick cut that it reminds me of ban mian without the floury taste. cheese sauce would have been greater if the blue cheese flavour was more pronounced. ;op

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