I've read about Amalfi years back, and have always been curious to try their offerings. They have a menu of traditional favorites from pasta dishes, wood fire oven pizzas and mains varying from seafood to lamb. The interiors of the restaurant are kept simple, first things you will notice are the open kitchen and large chalkboards with the day's specials.
For our first visit, we started with garlic bread and an order of their black mussels cooked in a broth of stock, garlic and chili. This is a favorite of mine from the Philippines and was looking so happy to see it in their menu and was hoping it was close to the one we order in Boracay Island. It was, and according to Mart, may even be better! The broth is salty and tasty and great to soak the garlic bread in! The mussels are perfectly cooked, still tender and easy to eat.
We then moved on to our Cardinale pizza - toppings include prosciutto, bocconcini, basil and mushrooms. The crust was really good and tasty with the perfect thickness and crunch. The toppings did not overwhelm the pizza and the ingredients used were of very good quality.
For dessert, we had an order of their tiramisu. From our whole meal, this is the most forgettable part. We did not enjoy our dessert because it was a bit dry and I missed the creamy mascarpone cream you usually lick of your spoon when having tiramisu.
Sans dessert though, it was a great dining experience and we'll definitely be making ur way back and work our way through more items in the menu!
'Till the next post!
Sharlyn
Menu
Garlic Bread - $4.20
Cozze Aglio Olio - Black Mussels steamed with garlic olive oil, parsly, chili and fish broth, $15.40
Cardinale Pizza, $ 24 / 15.90
Tiramisu
AMALFI RISTORANTE PIZZERIA
est 1981
29 Frome Street City East End
www.amalfi.net.au
Lunch MON-FRI
Dinner MON-SAT
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