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Mumbai food: Why this Khar eatery’s Neapolitan pizzas are a contingency try
- Updated: June 22, 2016
Gustoso
Food: Tasty
Service: Helpful
Ambience: Cheery
Diavola. Pics/Tehniyat Razvi
A informed steer of a pinkish scooter parked nearby a table, a wood-fired oven in a open kitchen and a picture of an Italian marketplace greeted us as we stepped into a Neapolitan restaurant, Gustoso, a rebranded avatar of Pizza Metro Pizza in Khar (its other opening in Kemps Corner has been rebranded too). However, a clarity of déjà vu finished here.
Ciabatta
Over strains of foot-tapping Italian music, we pored over a menu, charity new dishes in a antipasti, soups, salads, pasta, risotto, entrées, desserts and particularly, a pizza section. The strange varieties like Chinese Room and Club 9 are now transposed by Parmigiana, Tricolore and Pesto E Pollo.
Pizza Alla Nutella
That’s a handiwork of consultant cook Giulio Adriani, who was roped in by a owners, Indianapoli Hospitality, to curate a new menu. For a uninitiated, a Italian pizza maker, who has won 4 pizza universe championships, is famous for his signature pizza, a Montanara, a re-visioned Neapolitan cake featuring an arrogant membrane combined from flash-fried dough. While we would have favourite to try this sold variety, that unfortunately didn’t underline on a menu, we attempted 3 other pizza offerings and here’s how they fared in a ambience test:
A wood-fired oven in a open kitchen
Diavola (Rs 750): Though a vestige from a prior menu, a pizza has been revamped with toppings like sharp honey, ‘soppressata’ salami (Italian dry salami), jalapeno and mozzarella that seem on a bed of their signature tomato sauce, presumably baked from an old-world recipe regulating a renouned San Marzano tomatoes from Italy. A detonate of flavours greeted us when we bit into a 12-inch, piping prohibited pizza with a melt-in-your-mouth soothing and skinny crust. The abounding and sour salsa blended good with a cheesy blobs and skinny discs of a delectable salami (one of a best sausages we’ve attempted in a while) while sugar combined a spirit of sweetness.
Rating: 4.5/5
Ciabatta (Rs 750): With a fluffy, pillow-ey texture, a elementary and modest rectilinear pizza ecstatic us to a pleasing bylanes of Naples. While a waiter had warned us that this one wouldn’t underline a sauce, we didn’t skip it either, deliberation it was easily surfaced with bell peppers and mozzarella. Adding to a taste, was a crust, pressed with ricotta scamorza, an Italian accumulation of cow’s divert cheese, that was refreshingly uninformed compared to unchanging cheese bursts.
Rating: 4/5
Pizza Alla Nutella (Rs 500): While chocolate pizzas have been around for a while now, this one had a opinion since it came stuffed, rather than topped, with slimey Nutella and sliced almonds. Baked to perfection, it done for a honeyed finale to a meal.
Rating: 3.5/5
Time: 12 noon to 3 pm; 6 pm to 11.30 pm (Monday to Friday); 12 noon to 11.30 pm (weekends)
At: Jharna Apartments, Dr BR Ambedkar Road, Khar (W).
Call: 26485697
Gustoso didn’t know we were there. a beam reviews anonymously and pays for a meals.