Archive for the ‘Leichhardt’ Category
V Rating: VV A couple of months ago trusty Canberra restaurant reviewer Grundnorm stayed with me in Sydney. As Andy and I didn’t have a car at that stage, the Sydney restaurants I’d reviewed had mostly been within a one kilometre radius of my home and my office. To counteract my embarrassingly small geographical circle, Grundnorm suggested that we use his car to go to a new part of Sydney - somewhere different, far off, exciting, noice, unusual… like the Italian Forum in Leichhardt. The Italian Forum is a huge apartment complex surrounding a piazza with restaurants and shops. On a Saturday night the restaurants fill with bon vivants whose laughter, voices and clinking plates and glasses make for a loud and joyful atmosphere. We headed for Cafe La Vigna because they had six veggie and three vegan choices for mains, which is more than the average Italian Frum restaurant. We shared a fried haloumi entree (that’s five slices of haloumi on a plate). I chose the penne Siciliana as a main (olive, eggplant and capsicum in a Napolitana sauce). It was OK, although the eggplant was not as softly cooked as I like it. We also had a run of the mill garden salad. One of the most fascinating parts of the evening was watching the waiting staff deliver huge trays of food to other diners. The trays were laden with either meats or seafood and reminded me of a medieval banquet. Reviewed 11/3/06. KP |
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