La Piazzetta
灣仔軒尼詩道44號地下
G/F, 44 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/the-world-of-tortellini-and-gnocchi-e2149877
Had a craving for gnocchi and tortellini, and I found just the right place, gnocchi are rare, but common in upscale restaurants.
Usually the menu offers one choice of gnocchi and tortellini, but here it offers from 4-6 different sauces!!!
For gnocchi, there six different sauces to choose from:
1)Tomato and basil
2)Tomato and bacon
3)Tomato shrimp and chilli
4)Butter and sage
5)Gorgonzole cheese sauce (blue cheese)
6)Tomato, pesto and cream
gnocchi with gorgoazole cheese
For Tortellini there are four different sauces to choose from
1)Butter and sage
2)Imported cream
3)Cream and tomato sauce
4)Bolognaise and cream
The atmosphere here is very upscale that I felt like I was dining in Central.
For lunch, they have set lunches, and two pages for the tortellini and gnocchi.
The lunches include soup/salad, bread, drinks and dessert.
Although it may be pricey, but it is truly worth it, however you need at least 1.5 hours as they are quite short staffed.
Even on Mondays all the tables manage to fill up.
Tried two versions of Gnocchi, one with gorgonzola cheese and the other with butter and sage.
The cheese was quite strong of blue cheese taste, but was not as creamy as it looked, and the butter and sage was quite nice to get the real taste of Gnocchi, and it reminds me of baked potato and butter.
As for the tortellini, it was gorgeous, piping hot tortellini in plentiful sauce.
However, the portions could have been bigger, even with dessert, starter and drink, I still felt hungry.
The bread given was soft aromatic white focaccia with onion, which were excellent dipping them into vinegar and olive oil.
The soup and starter are also good, depending on what they serve that day, good soups include green pea soup and vegetable soup which is very wholesome containing lots of kidney beans.
My favourite starter is the egg and asparagus, which has some alcohol in it.
The dessert is either chocolate mousse or zabaglione, but the texture of both is slightly dry, and tasted a bit like artificial cream.
Zabaglione is an Italian dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, a sweet wine (usually Marsala wine, but in the original formula Moscato d'Asti), and sometimes whole eggs. It is a very light custard, which has been whipped to incorporate a large amount of air.
