The Osteria Il Mattarello, which means "The Rolling Pin Inn" in Italian, is another restaurant where clients can sit and have a quiet meal. It's situated just off Gouraud st. in Gemmeyze.
The decor is eclectic with a curious combination of minimal design cutlery, modern furniture, futuristic speakers on the roof and black and white pictures of presumably old, famous Italians framed with ornamental Louis IV-esque frames.
What makes this restaurant different than the majority of the other Italian restaurants is that the menu is dedicated to finely cooked Italian dishes other than the typical pizza and pasta that you usually find. So much emphasis is placed on these dishes that they take up the whole menu, with the usual pizza and pasta taking up only a smaller, side mini-menu within the main menu.
Our waiter is very accommodating in deciphering the menu along with helping us choose a fine red Italian wine.
I highly suggest the wild mushroom mille feuille as an entrée, if you like fresh mushrooms, it's a flavourful dish. As a main course the veal cooked in wine was another hit. But as great as these two dishes are, nothing could prepare us for the dessert that came next, the "Bomba". The Bomba is, simply, a chocolate pizza. It comes in the form of a ball stuffed with Nutella, which is to be mashed, then cut into slices and shared, and my God how delicious it is!
Definitely a place that I'll keep coming back to, with its decent prices.
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