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Pizza chic, lives up to its name!

  This well positioned restaurant offers de luxe pizzas in a décor which is part plain, part elegant. For starters you could try the grilled vegetables with Burrata, which was good but not exceptional. For mains, there’s pizza of course, that’s why you’re here, bianca (without tomato sauce) or rossa (with tomato sauce). They are good with a well made base and better than the norm ingredients. The house’s si ...

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Rossi & co, Italian produce

Italy is truly a country of gastronomy, equal to France or Japan.  Some nations just have cuisine in their blood.  Rossi & co reflects modern Italy : organic produce, somewhere between rough and chic, with a confusing shopfront …. The welcome is professional, the menu is short but the dishes are rich: hot mozzarella with truffles, pasta of the day with cheese, tomato, vegetables, colourful and tasty, so ...

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Le Café de la Jatte, cuisine with character

The heart of this historic building which beats to the quiet rhythm of the l’île de la Jatte is presided over by talented chef Giovanni Perrone.  This former costume store for the Opéra de Paris has been transformed into an Italian brasserie which is a cross between a cabaret and a conservatory opening onto a sunny terrace.  The kitchen too is spacious and infused with the sunshine tastes of Puglia, r ...

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L’Altro, all Italian restaurants should be like this

When you enter this restaurant in the evening, you feel yourself come alive:  all the elements of Italy, New York and the Paris bistro are here and the cheerful and lively international clientele confirms this feeling.  The welcome is brief but friendly, we sit down and first impressions are good:  a nice intelligent menu, delicious and full of foreign flavours, reasonable prices, great atmosphere and that’ ...

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Pasta Oro, high-flying pizzas

This pizzeria has just been extended and become much more visible, fortunately for us because we’ve just discovered it.  And what a discovery!   The owners are Italian, naturally, and lovers of good ingredients, that goes without saying and they’re pizza perfectionists who don’t do things by halves. Friends, the pizzas here are very high flying:  imagine the flavours of  l’Estiva, San Marzano tomatoes, stra ...

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Il Circolo, Italy on a plate

  You will get a warm welcome here from Venetian Alessandro Margini, enthusiastic food and wine lover.  The atmosphere is relaxed, somewhere between Paris and Rome. The starters are varied: burrata, vegetable gratin, an excellent octopus salad…Followed by pasta, for example very good tagliatelle with San Daniele ham and mascarpone.  There are also penne or gnocchi beautifully combined with king prawns, clam ...

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A Tavola, the essential Italian takeaway

A warning dear readers : we’re talking about pizzas of the very highest calibre. Unfortunately, you can’t sit down and eat at this takeaway but you can order pizzas to take away, and what pizzas ! Everything about these pizzas is delicious : from the Parma ham to the mozzarella via the fresh tomato sauce and even the olive oil ! That’s what you would expect, because everything comes from this amazing ...

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Mmmozza, authentic and good

It’s tiny but they’ve managed to get in 2 tables and a few chairs. So it’s the ideal place to enjoy all sorts genuine Italian fresh mozzarella: Burrata, of course but also smoked mozzarella, plaited mozzarella, mozzarella bread….Delicious! Not to be missed: ask for a selection of different varieties and some slices of charcuterie, lardo, grissini, all washed down with a nice Italian white as recommend ...

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