This was our first visit to Pastaria Abate at their current location (86 Neil Road). It's been a while since we've eaten in the restaurant. What has noticeably changed was that there's table service now and that prices sure have gone up. This was us reacquainting ourselves with their food again by ordering a bunch of stuff off their specials board.
Polpette con uova - literally meatball with eggs. I don't remember being impressed by their meatballs previously but this one was nice. Savoury meatiness and a nice bite without being drowned in cheap dried herbs. Even the tomato sauce it came with was meaty tasting. Loved those eggs x 3 draped over those meatballs. Speaking of which, said eggs were described as Japanese golden eggs.
Had a spaghetti seppia nero - this one had large chunks of cephalopods in a delicious lightweight sauce of cuttlefish ink con pomodoro. Very satisfying served piping hot. Why did I say cephalopod? Because I didn't actually know if it was squid and I suspected it was cuttlefish. Tender ones at that which kinda reminded us of Ink-Redible Calamari.
These were ravioli stuffed with prawns and mascarpone in a brown butter sauce. Could taste what I thought to be blue cheese in it as well. There's a whole prawn inside each of those ravioli. Not bad.
Limited serving osso bucco with a buttery mash. Sauce was rich and also a bit spicy. I even got a piece of chilli that had a bit of burn in it. Parts of the meat around the bone was filled with tender bits of gooey broken down connective tissue. 👍🏼 Too bad the bone was tiny. 👎🏼
We had no more room for desserts at this point so it's a Himalayan salt latte. Coffee's flavour wasn't what I'll call robust but there was a pleasant aroma and the latte with the light saltiness was pretty smooth. Went down easily and we enjoyed it.
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