Little italy
Hello Foodies,
I had an opportunity
to visit Little Italy in Sharjah, and I have contemplating since then as to
whether or not I should write a review of that place. If you are wondering why –
read on.
I have been
reading such amazing reviews of Little Italy, that I had the restaurant on my
list of vegetarian restaurants to eat at during Lent.
Little Italy is
easily locatable in Safeer mall. We reached at 8:30 p.m., and walked in to a
dimly lit empty restaurant. They have tried to get an Italianesque ambiance
with the tiny window sills decorated with flowers and the artificial vineyard
etc.
The major turn
off when we walked in were sticky floors, personally it isn’t something that I’m
comfortable with. I pushed that aside and headed over to our table, expecting a
good dinner.
We started off
with minestrone soup, which was more of thin clear soup with few vegetables in
it as opposed to authentic Italian minestrone soup which is thick and includes
loads of vegetables often with the addition of rice or pasta. The soup was a major
let down for me.
We were served
water in glasses that was unclean and had visible fingerprints on it.
Soup was
accompanied with garlic bread, It was topped with oodles of cheese and tasted
amazing, but it didn’t have any garlic flavor.
The only saving
grace was the Pasta Barbaresca. It was served with luscious creamy sauce topped
with broccoli, tomato, parmesan cheese and chilli flakes. It was super
flavorsome and palatable. I dived in for a second serving almost immediately.
Pasta was
followed by Pizza Meloni with exotic vegetables. It looked amazing and when we
were served I could see the amount of cheese in the pizza which made my mouth
water. However, the first bite was disheartening and I didn’t enjoy the Pizza
as much as I did the pasta. Moreso, the server dropped cheese in my glass and didn’t
bother to replace it.
For dessert, we
opted for Tiramisu and Panacotta. Tiramisu was just perfect – imagine your fork
sliding through a cloud of mascarpone and whipped cream, softened by liquer
spiked espresson and then settling on cocoa sprinkled on the plate – absolute heaven.
Tiramisu was dessert heaven, and was much needed post the main course that
failed to excite my palate.
Panacotta was
served with thin slices of apple and was just the perfect end to my dinner.
Little Italy is
more of an Indianised Italian cuisine. Probably we let the manager decide our
dinner and hence had a bad experience. However, It would definitely take me a
lot more than convincing to go back to Little Italy.
We were invited to Little Italy and all views and images are © Urbanmodish, unless stated otherwise.
We were invited to Little Italy and all views and images are © Urbanmodish, unless stated otherwise.
