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Located on a side street off the Carrer de Fomentor, the Bellagio is a restaurant serving mainly Italian food. There’s a small frontage but it goes back, opening onto a nice shrub lined terrace, mainly shaded by large parasols.
We went for lunch when they offer a well priced (€14) set menu. That includes starter, main course, dessert or coffee and a drink. It seemed to be popular with the local ex-pat British community, who seemed to be regulars.
There’s three choices at each course. Pumpkin soup was a thickish consistency, with a sweetish flavour as you might expect. A scattering of crisp breadcrumbs made a nice change in texture. Now, if that could have come from almost anywhere in Europe, ravioli was unquestionably Italian. Good “al dente” pasta with a ham and cheese filling, served in a very tasty tomato sauce.
Chicken breast was stuffed with mushrooms and ham and was coated in a cream sauce which worked well. Also on the plate, a dollop of mashed potato and a spoonful or two of mixed vegetables. Pizza Margherita was a decent example of the Italian classic. Tasty base, baked to crisp in what I think was a wood fired oven, with well made tomato sauce and mozzarella.
Desserts were OK. As often the case at this level of restaurant, OK is as good as you get. As with many restaurants, they looked and tasted as though they might well have been bought in from the catering wholesaler, rather than made in house. I will always order tiramisu in any new Italian. I’m trying to find my “best ever” (so far, the top spot goes to a place in Greater Manchester, with second place, going to a restaurant in Burlington, Vermont). This one doesn’t make the shortlist having no oomph from coffee or booze and was just a generic “sweet”. Across the table, there was a New York style cheesecake topped with a sweet/sharp red berry compote which did lift it a bit.
Nice lunch. The sort that we never seem to have time to do very often at home
We went for lunch when they offer a well priced (€14) set menu. That includes starter, main course, dessert or coffee and a drink. It seemed to be popular with the local ex-pat British community, who seemed to be regulars.
There’s three choices at each course. Pumpkin soup was a thickish consistency, with a sweetish flavour as you might expect. A scattering of crisp breadcrumbs made a nice change in texture. Now, if that could have come from almost anywhere in Europe, ravioli was unquestionably Italian. Good “al dente” pasta with a ham and cheese filling, served in a very tasty tomato sauce.
Chicken breast was stuffed with mushrooms and ham and was coated in a cream sauce which worked well. Also on the plate, a dollop of mashed potato and a spoonful or two of mixed vegetables. Pizza Margherita was a decent example of the Italian classic. Tasty base, baked to crisp in what I think was a wood fired oven, with well made tomato sauce and mozzarella.
Desserts were OK. As often the case at this level of restaurant, OK is as good as you get. As with many restaurants, they looked and tasted as though they might well have been bought in from the catering wholesaler, rather than made in house. I will always order tiramisu in any new Italian. I’m trying to find my “best ever” (so far, the top spot goes to a place in Greater Manchester, with second place, going to a restaurant in Burlington, Vermont). This one doesn’t make the shortlist having no oomph from coffee or booze and was just a generic “sweet”. Across the table, there was a New York style cheesecake topped with a sweet/sharp red berry compote which did lift it a bit.
Nice lunch. The sort that we never seem to have time to do very often at home