Present: Jim, Karen, Megan, Ron, Andrew, Kim. John was still in Sydney.
Wine: Stefano Lubiana Pinot Noir Tas 2011
Brown Bros Prosecco.
Corvina has opened in Swinger Hill shops in the same place that Santa Lucia used to be, and the theme and style of food has changed very little.
We decided to do the sharing thing, starting with deep fried olives, calamari salad, zucchini fritters and a mushroom dish. The olives were okay, we thought we could do better, the calamari was the favourite, very tender with a fabulous salad, really nice dressing; the fritters looked a bit strange and turned out to be quite bland; the mushrooms okay, a bit messy. It was in a balsamic vinegar and sugar reduction.
We had three pastas, a linguini which was great with garlic and chilli, a gnocchi which had a beautiful texture and risotto served with a touch of basil - fabulous.
Desserts were fabulous also, "what a conclusion" was Ron's comment, lemon tart, ricotta cheese cake, and cannoli.
Corvina is a very basic but very good Italian, on par with most of the Italian restaurants in Canberra. It wasn't outstanding, but if you go without any over the top expectations, you wouldn't be disappointed. The service was quick, the dishes came out quickly and the wait staff were friendly and informed. The main negative was the noise level, again a restaurant not for the baby boomers. We thought we would venture into the realm of rating restaurants by their decibel reading...this one measured at 80.
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