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Susan Jung

Cuisine: Italian
Price: About HK$500 per person for a three-course meal without drinks or the service charge.
Ambience: Buzzing and happy. It would be best to come with a group so you can order one of the meat or cheese platters, as well as the delicious pastas.
Pros: Great, friendly service.

Cons: We tried one dessert to share – the Nutella broken pie with strawberries and lychees (HK$88) – which made us realise that we don’t like Nutella (it’s too sweet and doesn’t taste much of either hazelnuts or chocolate). The broken “crust” tasted like too-sweet biscuits from a pack and we strongly suspect that the lychee garnish, as well as the lychee ice cream, had been made from tinned fruit.

Recommended dishes: We were tempted by some of the appetisers, but in the end went for one pasta and one main course each.
The pasta dishes were excellent. Home-made ravioli with ricotta, mascarpone, fresh Italian tomatoes and basil (HK$158) was the lighter of the two we tried. There was plenty of cheese filling, the pasta was thin and delicate and the gently cooked tomatoes were sweet and flavourful.
My guest complained that his Luganega sausage with home-made strozzapreti (HK$168) was too mild, but that didn’t stop him from cleaning his plate. The pasta had a nice, slightly chewy texture and the rich sauce had plenty of flavour.
We also liked the mains. My guest’s pan-seared Fassona beef rib-eye (HK$288) was tender, and the accompaniments of oven-roasted potatoes in lard and creamed spinach were excellent. My slow-cooked Italian suckling pig belly (HK$238) suffered from leathery skin – it was hard to cut with a knife – but the meat was succulent.

What else? The chef, Alessandro Angelini, worked previously at Angelini at the Kowloon Shangri-La.
LucAle, Shop A, 100 Third Street, Sai Ying Pun, tel: 3611 1842





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Home-made ravioli with ricotta, mascarpone, fresh Italian tomatoes and basil was just one of the excellent dishes at this new Italian restaurant
It would be best to go as a group to enjoy the meat and cheese platters



Home-made ravioli with ricotta, mascarpone, fresh Italian tomatoes and basil was just one of the excellent dishes at this Italian restaurant in Sai Ying Pun, where you should go as a group to enjoy the meat and cheese platters.


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