La Camera Italian Restaurant
February 14th 2007 01:39
La Camera
Level 1, Southgate
Southbank
Melbourne, Australia
61 3 9699 3600
Cuisine: Italian & Pizza
License: Fully Licensed (no BYO)
Price Range: Entrées start at $10.00
Mains start at $15.00
Desserts start at $7.50
Opening Hours: Mon-Thu 8.30am-10.30pm
Fri-Sat 8.30am-11.30pm
Sun 9am-11pm
A vegetarian and vegan-friendly restaurant that specialises in wood-fired oven pizza, La makes pizzas just like they are made in Italy. Unknown to most, the traditional Italian pizza is eaten quite plain and with very little toppings, usually only consisting of fresh tomato sauce, lovely cheese and fragrant herbs. This is how they make it here!
Although the restaurant was full and buzzing with activity, I was very impressed with the speed of service. However, it would have been nice for the waitress who greeted us at the door to walk us to our table instead of just pointing us in the direction and leaving us to locate the party of friend’s we were meeting.
We started with plates of bruschetta (herbed roma tomatoes topped on fresh garlic bread) and a trio of dips served with Turkish bread, which was generously topped up for us. For mains it was a selection of pizzas; Napolitana, Patata Bianca (potatoes and taleggio cheese) and Emo, which was missing the selection of vegetables it promised except for eggplant and zucchini (where were the mushrooms, capsicums and olives?) without any explanation. We also had a plate of their home-made Gnocchi in a tomato and cream sauce. As a fan of Gnocchi, I grab the chance of having fresh Gnocchi any time I can.
Dessert was great with a selection of dark chocolate mousse, panacotta, sticky date pudding, tiramisu and an orange almond cake which we shared around the table.
La Camera is definitely a restaurant with good Italian food at a good price and location.
Level 1, Southgate
Southbank
Melbourne, Australia
61 3 9699 3600
License: Fully Licensed (no BYO)
Price Range: Entrées start at $10.00
Mains start at $15.00
Desserts start at $7.50
Fri-Sat 8.30am-11.30pm
Sun 9am-11pm
A vegetarian and vegan-friendly restaurant that specialises in wood-fired oven pizza, La makes pizzas just like they are made in Italy. Unknown to most, the traditional Italian pizza is eaten quite plain and with very little toppings, usually only consisting of fresh tomato sauce, lovely cheese and fragrant herbs. This is how they make it here!
Although the restaurant was full and buzzing with activity, I was very impressed with the speed of service. However, it would have been nice for the waitress who greeted us at the door to walk us to our table instead of just pointing us in the direction and leaving us to locate the party of friend’s we were meeting.
We started with plates of bruschetta (herbed roma tomatoes topped on fresh garlic bread) and a trio of dips served with Turkish bread, which was generously topped up for us. For mains it was a selection of pizzas; Napolitana, Patata Bianca (potatoes and taleggio cheese) and Emo, which was missing the selection of vegetables it promised except for eggplant and zucchini (where were the mushrooms, capsicums and olives?) without any explanation. We also had a plate of their home-made Gnocchi in a tomato and cream sauce. As a fan of Gnocchi, I grab the chance of having fresh Gnocchi any time I can.
Dessert was great with a selection of dark chocolate mousse, panacotta, sticky date pudding, tiramisu and an orange almond cake which we shared around the table.
La Camera is definitely a restaurant with good Italian food at a good price and location.
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