Our Latest Great Place To Eat - La Dolce Vita
Thursday 12 September 2013
We were attracted initially by their 2 course Early Bird menu which also had the option of a la carte dishes carrying small supplements. Sir is not the biggest pasta, pizza or salad fan, but he was under orders, on this occasion, not to veer off the strict EB as I wanted to try it out and it more than passed with flying colours.
To kick off, he had Bruschetta alla Romana - chopped fresh tomato, red onion, garlic and olive oil, whilst I had a delicous Greek salad which had all the bells and whistles of mixed leaves, peppers, tomato, black olives, cucumber and cubes of Feta cheese. Penne Pollo Arrabbiata seemed a safe dish for Brendan – no coping with straggling pasta. It proved a very decent bowl with perfectly cooked Penne, pan fried chicken, red onions and mixed peppers, in a tomato and basil sauce with a good spicy kick and perked up with a brace of ciabatta ‘ears’. My Fettuccini Pollo al Funghi likewise sported plenty of chicken slices and mushrooms in a tasty creamy Parmesan and white sauce. There was nothing mean here: they left the Parmesan to us and didn’t whisk it away immediately.
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