It was New Year's Eve. We believe most of everyone have ways of celebrating the last day of the year and Salt n Pepper is no exception. We chose to go to a better dining restaurant to enjoy our last dinner of the year and that place was Bella Italia.
From the name of it, you can know that this is an Italian Restaurant and that most of us would have already know it serves one of the best italian foods in town. The shop is owned by non-locals and I guess the owner should be from Italy. Bella Italia is located at RH Plaza, the block not far away from Four Points Sheraton. One should easily recognise the shop as it is painted in Italy's flag colours.
On this special night, we ordered an appetizer, a soup, 2 main courses and a pizza.
For appetizer, we ordered Bruschetta. For those of you who don't know what is this dish about, it actually is "an appetizer from central Italy whose origin dates to at least the 15th century. It consists of grilled bread rubbed with garlic and topped with extra-virgin olive oil, salt, pepper. Variations may include toppings of spicy red pepper, tomato, vegetables, beans, cured meat, and/or cheese; the most popular recipe outside of Italy involves basil, fresh tomato, garlic and onion or mozzarella" (from Wikipedia).
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| Bruschetta |
Next came the mushroom soup. Guess this dish would not have need any further introduction what it is.
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| Mushroom Soup |
There came our main course dishes which were the Fettuccine Alla Carbonara. Fettuccine is one of the variants in a pasta meals which the pasta is in flat strips which is wider than the normal spaghetti what we know of. The method of cooking was carbonara (i.e. creamy white sauce) cooked with ingredients such as beef bacon, herbs and fresh mushroom.
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| Fettuccine Alla Carbonara |
The next dish being served was Galleto Venetto. From the name of the dish if without giving any further description, would anyone be able to guess what is it? Tip: Refer to photo below.
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| Galleto Venetto |
Anyhow, no prize for guessing correctly :P. This was actually baked boneless chicken breast with fresh mushroom, cheese, tomatoes and herbs topped with spicy pizzaiola sauce.
Last thing to try out at this restaurant would be the italian style pizza which this restaurant is famous with. The obvious difference between the normal pizza that we have at Pizza Hut and over here is the crust which is thin and crunchy like biscuits. Our order of the night was Pinnochio. Remember the Pinnochio story that we always heard during our childhood? Whereby if Pinnochio tells a lie, his nose would grow longer. Not so sure why this pizza is named after this character but for sure one's nose would not grow longer after eating it.
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| Pinnochio |
Wish we could have tried some desserts however upon finishing the above, we were quite full already. Overall, we have had a satisfying meal. Maybe our next trip trip we would just order a pizza and then dessert.
Happy New Year 2011!!!
1 comments:
Wow the food looks great, very similar in fact to what you acan get at the Bella Italia London. i wonder if they're related at all? Probably not, but you never know, because Bella italia is quite a common name and not just for restaurants.
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