Liquid chocolate at last @ Caffe Pascucci

I have finally satisfied my hot chocolate craving with a real delicious cup of hot chocolate, by that I mean real melted chocolate texture, not the strong cocoa based drink with a milky after taste.

Anyway, the chocolate here is literally as thick as fondue, sauce like, and when you drink it it still remains thick. I managed to see the machinery for the hot chocolate, it is constantly stirred to keep it thick and runny, or else it will go lumpy.

I also appreciated the temperature of the hot chocolate, not boiling, but just the right temperature that you can drink without burning yourself.

As for the tortellini, not as good as I thought it would be, but I intend to try the Ravioli next time.

 

Tortellini @ Okapi Cafe

Wanted to try this place for a long time, was attracted by the wooden black doors and grand logo.
I was expecting high quality food, from its design and menu range.

However I felt that top quality could probably be reached by ordering their most expensive items, because the set meals offered, could be offered by similar restaurants nearby and probably cheaper. I couldnt find anything distinguishing itself from other restaurants.

The soup was OK and light.

 

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The beef was rather tough and had lots of tendons in it, the vegetables that came with it were onion rings and broccoli, which i thought was not that balanced. Not even a potato to be seen.

 

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The tortellini tasted good, but this is really a ready made item, that is just baked and their sauce added on top.
 

 

The world of Tortellini and Gnocchi @ La Piazzetta

Had a craving for gnocchi and tortellini, and I found just the right place, gnocchi are rare, but common in upscale restaurants.

Usually the menu offers one choice of gnocchi and tortellini, but here it offers from 4-6 different sauces!!!

For gnocchi, there six different sauces to choose from:
1)Tomato and basil
2)Tomato and bacon
3)Tomato shrimp and chilli
4)Butter and sage
5)Gorgonzole cheese sauce (blue cheese)
6)Tomato, pesto and cream

butter n sage gnocchi

 

gnocchi with gorgoazole cheese

 

For Tortellini there are four different sauces to choose from
1)Butter and sage
2)Imported cream
3)Cream and tomato sauce
4)Bolognaise and cream

 

The atmosphere here is very upscale, infact I felt like I was dining in Central.

 

 

For lunch, they have set lunches, and two pages for the tortellini and gnocchi.

The lunches include soup/salad, bread, drinks and dessert.
Although it may be pricey, but it is truly worth it, however you need at least 1.5 hours as they are quite short staffed.
Even on Mondays all the tables manage to fill up.

Tried two versions of Gnocchi, one with gorgonzola cheese and the other with butter and sage.
The cheese was quite strong of blue cheese taste, but was not as creamy as it looked, and the butter and sage was quite nice to get the real taste of Gnocchi, and it reminds me of baked potato and butter.

As for the tortellini, it was gorgeous, piping hot tortellini in plentiful sauce.
However, the portions could have been bigger, even with dessert, starter and drink, I still felt hungry.

The bread given was soft aromatic white focaccia with onion, which were excellent dipping them into vinegar and olive oil.

pea soup and onion focaccia

 

The soup and starter are also good, depending on what they serve that day, good soups include green pea soup and vegetable soup which is very wholesome containing lots of kidney beans.

 

asparagus with egg

 

My favourite starter is the egg and asparagus, which has some alchohol in it.
The dessert is either chocolate mousse or zabaglione, but the texture of both is slightly dry, and tasted a bit like artificial cream.

zabaglione

 

x-section of the zabaglione

 

chocolate mousse

 

Zabaglione is an Italian dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, a sweet wine (usually Marsala wine, but in the original formula Moscato d'Asti), and sometimes whole eggs. It is a very light custard, which has been whipped to incorporate a large amount of air.