I could have eaten Roman food for the entirety of my holiday
and not gotten bored, but I decided to be adventurous and hop on the train to
Santa Marinella for a day of eating seafood and lying by the beach. Well, maybe
not that adventurous, because I got the idea entirely from this article. Even
if I’d ended up in Santa Marinella without guidance, there is no way I would
have found the restaurant we visited; it's about a 25 minute walk from the
station along a main road.
The restaurant in question, Tavola Azzurra 2, is an
unassuming-looking Sardinian restaurant. They don’t do menus; you are offered
what’s being cooked that day and you can take it or leave it. They brought us a
jug of white wine, water, crispy carta di musica and a salad of assorted sea
creatures dressed in olive oil, lemon and parsley (mostly octopus, but there
were some prawns mixed in too).
Sometime later, they brought us a huge plates of spaghetti alle vongole. It was incredibly garlicky and buttery, and had a generous amount (and variety) of clams. Despite feeling very full, we still used the bread to soak up the butter-garlic-seafood juices left on our plates.
We were then brought some pastries which we shared - a fig and almond tart and a berry tart. These were nice, but I didn’t appreciate them as much as the seafood. I couldn’t manage the final offering: a thick, bitter medicinal spirit.
Sometime later, they brought us a huge plates of spaghetti alle vongole. It was incredibly garlicky and buttery, and had a generous amount (and variety) of clams. Despite feeling very full, we still used the bread to soak up the butter-garlic-seafood juices left on our plates.
We were then brought some pastries which we shared - a fig and almond tart and a berry tart. These were nice, but I didn’t appreciate them as much as the seafood. I couldn’t manage the final offering: a thick, bitter medicinal spirit.
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