Monthly Dinner Club

This is a blogspot which will serve as a Restaurant Review for our Monthly Dinner Club. We are based in Cape Town and have visited restaurants since January 2001. Each month, one of the Organisers selects a new restaurant with the only rule being that it is not allowed to be a venue that the Monthly Dinner Club or one of the Organisers have frequented before.

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Basilico

Basilico

Address: 32 Kildare Road, Newlands

Tel: 021 683 5989

Date: 25 January 2020

Organised by: Vanessa


Patrons: Carol, Anthony, Lucy, Mike, Claudia, Brian, Ana Rita, Amie, Nadine, Marco, Vanessa, Gail, Charnel 

Comments: 
- Starter was caprese salad & garlic pizza. Salad was fresh & tasty and garlic pizza had the perfect amount of garlic. Base nice and crispy. Cured meats platter was very good.
- Mains: Chorizo risotto had loads of flavour and saucy but not too saucy. Spag bol was also very good. Bacon, mushrooms, cream with penne pasta was absolutely amazing.
- Starter - springbok carp than salmon risotto - no complaints. All good. Generous portions.
- Beetroot was divine. Pork fillet was very generous but sauce was overly sweet.
- Banting pizza was overcooked & burnt.
- Pulled pork pizza - lots of chili but tasty. I ordered this instead of the lamb & mint I intended to order = Snr moment:-)
- Carpaccio starter was delicious. Lamb pizza good - little unevenly distributed toppings.
- Beef carpaccio and basilico pizza were good. Pizza was a bit bland but perked up after the salt cellar incident. Lovely atmosphere and good company.
- Beef ravioli was rich and creamy. a bit of spice but delicious still. Service was excellent.
- Carpaccio and tortellini starters, delicious. Brian had mussels tagliatelle and loved it.






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