Started off our evening at The Marker Hotel for a glass of wine.
I chose a glass of Picpoul de Pinet.
From there we walked to Osteria Lucio - the tunnel restaurant on Clanwilliam Terrace. We had a great table that was perfectly situated to feel the vibrations from the trains passing nearby.
The last time we ate at the tunnel restaurant it was Pizza e Porchetta. Now it's Osteria Lucio and Ross Lewis from Chapter One is here. I do believe the mark has been raised (albeit from a pretty high threshold to begin with!)
The staff are so nice and friendly!
Here's their A la Carte dinner menu:
We ordered a bottle of 6 Sei Corone Nero D'avola. It was a very nice and light red wine.
So to the food. I ordered poached salmon for starters and Sean chose the poached egg.
The salmon is served with romanesco, pesto, horseradish emulsion and orange. It's served cold and all the flavours / textures really complimented each other.
The poached egg was served with brioche, oyster mushrooms, smoked paprika mayonnaise, prosciutto and vacca rossa foam. The egg was perfectly cooked.
That was followed by the prosciutto and buffalo pizza which I asked to be a white pizza. They had no problem with that order. The pizza base was perfect. Light and crispy and the toppings were plentiful. The mozzarella was well melted, the prosciutto was delicious as was the Parmesan. The rocket was as peppery as it should be. I tried it with a bit of their chilli oil which had a serious kick. A little slice of pizza heaven!!!
Sean chose the wild boar ragu taglioni. He loved it and said he'd have eaten an entire huge pot of it.
For dessert I had Tiramisu. It was the nicest and lightest Tiramisu I have ever tried!!! I also had an Americano. They're serving up Imbibe Fair trade coffee. Really really good.
Sean had the Affogato - vanilla gelato and an espresso.
Can't tell you enough how good the food is there.
Enjoyed a top date night immensely :)
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