With its very vinci offerings and fired-up flavours, Spago stirs up a savoury storm

With its very vinci offerings and fired-up flavours, Spago stirs up a savoury storm

With patakha pizzas and subzi sphagetti, it'd been long since the city had seen some fresh, unadulterated Italian. Spago (which stands for spirals of spaghetti) decided to straighten it out. They sprinkled authentic Italian with rare spices, herbs and toppings, and put it on our tables to test. The results weren't disappointing.

In thing: The decor's simple and the hues modest

Royal rap
The place takes ahead the legacy of true-blue Italian aroma and taste quite effortlessly. Like Indian food, Italian preparations, too, have considerable regional and royal influences in terms of ingredients in the same preparation differing according to area. For example, the tomato travels to all Italian tummies barring those in Northen Italy. And the menu knows its wheres and hows.u00a0 Fruits, vegetables, sauces and meats, however, are the binding factor, making the spread a rich, united one.

Try Insalata Rustica, a warm walnut-grape salad with goat cheese. We failed to notice the use of goat cheese, a variant less preferred by urban gourmands, until the chef pointed it out in parts. Though goat cheese and cow cheese scale the same on the calorie count, the former is high on proteinu00a0 and considered the closest to human breast milk, making the preparation healthier. Another healthy option is the mixed

mushroom cappuccino soup, minestra di funghi cappuccino, which is served with bread sticks. If you're not dieting, go for fussilli al pestollo, fusilli pasta with chicken and sun-dried tomatoes cooked in pesto and cream sauce. While pesto and cream add to the richness, sun-drying retains the nutritional value of tomatoes. Wine is one of the main ingredients in Italian cooking, apart from other kinds of liquor. If you dig that, try their roasted duck breast with pepper and brandy sauce. It's a pleasure.

Main points
The best part about Italian food is that you can work those appetisers like mains. Like our neighbours, who were sipping wine with bruschetta and pasta. We followed, thinking it a good idea, as the chef walked in. "Our preparations are such that even if an Italian comes to dine here, he wouldn't find a fault in the way we behave in the kitchen," he beamed proudly. The music, though, he'd miss.u00a0

Spago
Food: authentic
Service: friendly
Ambience: simple
At: Kasbah, N Block, GK 1,
Call:u00a041635000.
Timings:u00a012.30 pm - 3.30 pm and 7.30 pmu00a0midnight.
Meal for two: Rs 1,500.