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Item: Spiga
Rating: 3
Author: khem9111

4.5

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34135

Central

$401-800

Italian

139

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khem9111

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Spiga replaced Lupa and I was expecting something of similar quality or better. Overall for $400 per person I was not impressed. The minestrone soup was worse than pizza hut's although the chunky homemade croutons were quite an elegant touch - it would have been even more elegant had they given maybe 1/2 a cup's worth and not an entire cup - there were nearly equal amounts of soup and croutons which is a bit ridiculous. You can tell they are very proud of their homemade bread as they make sure you know that it is 'homemade' three times. they also mention their pasta is 'homemade' - come on we know this is a restaurant and homemade food should be cheaper...haha. Anyways, their bread basket was just ok - for a homemade bread i expect a fresh out of the oven toasty warmess but this was dead cold. Not homey at all. They gave us a little amuse bouche which was nice, a little mushroom cannoli which I appreciated. It had a mushroom soup-y taste and had a nice crunch too.

Now for the mains. We got the buffalo mozzerella ravioli in tomato sauce and the white truffle pizza. They both tasted terrible. The lemon zest, bland tomato sauce and vinegar-y olive were just not harmonising. The actually technique of the pasta rolling involved in making a perfect ravioli was actually spot on. The ratio between the pasta and filling amazing. Superb technique, but the flavors of the dish just meant that I didn't want to finish my plate let alone ever want to eat here again.

The truffle pizza - do me a favour and do not fall for the trap of ordering this pizza. It sounds great in theory but it tasted terrible. The sauce base was 'white truffle sauce' which I can only describe taste-wise as a heavily condensed campbell mushroom soup. It was so heavy and so bad I was left feeling not great. Again, the technique of the pizza dough was amazing texturally and it was baked to perfection. I have occasionally in the past left out the crust when eating pizza. This was the FIRST time in my life that I ate the crust rather than want to eat the main filling of a pizza!

I was so disappointed by my meal that I wanted to forego dessert. But my experience has also told me that whenever a european restaurant be it french or italian has bad food - they end up being better for their dessert. I reluctantly ordered the tiramisu despite feeling heavy after that pizza - and turns out I was right and it was delicious. The coffee was bitter and it balanced the creamy mascarpone very well. It's a shame this place isn't a 'desserts only' type of place. All their desserts looked yummy actually. The environment of the restaurant is great, their outdoors area is beautiful. Service was fine, but a bit pretentious for my liking.