Craving for some fresh homemade pasta but can’t go to Italy for it? Don’t worry, Marco De Boni has brought Italy to the local Mandarin Oriental hotel.
The Italian chef, who heads the hotel’s Vida Rica Restaurant, has turned an area of the restaurant into a “Pasta Bar” complete with lemon trees and red-and-white checked tablecloths, where he will be preparing, in an open kitchen, pasta and Italian dishes based on his ancestor’s recipes.
The pasta menu has seven types on offer, and is priced, either 190 patacas or 240 patacas each, or choose four dishes to share for 600 patacas for two persons.
There is also a degustation menu, and at 728 patacas per person, it features grilled zucchini and charcuterie board, spaghetti allachitarra (guitar ‘square-shaped’ spaghetti) with spicy lobster sauce, flank Wagyu steak tagliata (or ‘boneless piece of grilled beef, served in slices’), with triple cooked chips and rocket salad, and tiramisu for dessert, with some classic Italian petit fours.
‘The Pasta Bar’ by Chef Marco De Boni is available now until September 19.
Vida Rica Restaurant Chef Marco De Boni prepares a dish for “The Pasta Bar” degustation menu during a media preview on Tuesday.
Spaghetti alla chitarra with spicy lobster sauce. Photos: Monica Leong
