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| - Tried this place for lunch today with the hubby after my friend recommended it to us. She had tried their location at Liberty Village and raved about their funghi pizza.
This location is pretty small and has maybe 5 tables and a bar area. You order at the front first and then they serve the food you. It looks like it's more of a take out place than a sit down restaurant.
Interestingly, the menu they had on display didn't have the funghi pizza and so I inquired about it and they said they do make it but it just wasn't up on the menu yet...not sure if it's just a new item to this location or something? They said that the funghi pizza would take about 30 minutes and so we decided to order it and take it to go and order some other things to eat there instead.
We ordered the panzanella salad and the carbonara.
1) Panzanella salad: Delicious and very large. It had an abundance of baby spinach, cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced red onions, foccocia croutons and buffalo mozzarella and a light olive oil based vinaigrette. Altogether, perfect start to a meal. Wasn't too heavy and was perfect for sharing for two.
2) Carbonara: The pasta is freshly made and you could definitely tell - it had the perfect chew. Fresh pasta makes such a huge difference to the dish. It came with a ton of bacon and had a nice creamy sauce. Overall, really good dish. I was worried it would be too salty because some other reviewers said the bacon made the dish too salty but in fact we thought it was perfect.
We tried to order the coconut cake as well but unfortunately they were out. So instead, they gave us a panna cotta on the house (so we got 2 panna cottas instead of one coconut cake). I don't think my husband and I have ever actually had a panna cotta before and we really didn't know what to expect. We thought it was ok, had the texture of flan or the Chinese tofu dessert (tofu fa) and had a very strong cinnamon taste to it. There were some macerated berries on top. Overall, not our favourite but we really didn't expect to get a free extra dessert so customer service was fantastic.
We got the medium funghi pizza and of course couldn't help but have a piece before we left the restaurant. The crust is thick and crispy. It's reminiscent of foccocia bread to be honest. There are a ton of mushrooms on top with shredded parmesan cheese. We felt it was like eating cream of mushroom on a crispy pizza crust. Also, we felt it wasn't flavourful enough and needed some salt and pepper. Once we added some salt and pepper, it was near perfect.
Overall, we both really enjoyed Levetto and would totally come back if we needed a pasta fix. The price was decent for the amount of food that we got - overall we spent I think 41 dollars for everything including 2 drinks. Definitely one of the better Italian places we've tried and dare I say it was better than Mercatto and Terroni's downtown.
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