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| - I had a very, very lovely evening here last night - the memory of the flavours makes my eyes roll back in my head!
I was brought here as a surprise for our second anniversary because Sweetheart knows I'm a huge Italian food fan, and he wanted to bring me to an authentic place. At most Italian restaurants, I just order pasta, because the meat doesn't really interest me that much, I love my carbs, and especially because usually the pasta is more than enough to fill me up - especially if I want any appetizers or desserts.
But here at 7 Numbers, they do it the right way - the portions are smaller because they're designed to be eaten through, and the prices reflect that (very reasonable prices!). So you're supposed to have an antipasti (appetizer), a primi (pasta course), and secondi (meat course) with contorni (side vegetables, usually in the form of veggies).
I was eyeing the fixed price menu but I had a picky eater with me, so we decided to pick everything out ourselves. We got the calamari, a large lasagna portion, the rapini linguini, the sexy duck leg, the grilled pork chop, and we got a slice of the flourless chocolate cake to go.
The calamari was delicious!!! It was very generously seasoned, cooked just right, and came on a bed of assorted lettuce. We squeezed the lemon slice it came with over it but I kind of wish we didn't because the coating on the calamari was the kind that wilts as soon as it hits liquid. But it was very, very good and the lemon went very well with it.
The pastas were really something to write home about! They were quite salty to me, which means Sweetheart found them perfect, and they were cooked a little longer than I liked, but the flavours were just wonderful. The rapini linguini was beautifully garlicky and olive oily, and the tomatoes in it were magically not acidic. The bitterness of the rapini cut through the richness very well. The lasagna was very, very hearty and rich. At first bite I kind of thought the sauce was too acidic but once you have it with the meat sauce and the cheese inside, it's perfect. The tartness of the sauce goes perfectly with the meat sauce, which must have been cooked for hours! I need to re-emphasize how rich and almost heavy the pastas are - the portions are smaller, which is perfect, but if anyone's squeamish about seeing a puddle of oil at the bottom of their plate, this pasta is not for them!
The meats were good but not as impressive as the pastas. The sexy duck leg was encrusted with rosemary, which made it taste very herbal, but it was very good. Kind of small though, and quite salty - but good. The grilled pork chop was delightfully thick and succulent - as juicy as a grilled pork chop could be! But the braised onion/pepper garnish it came with DELICIOUS. It was super savoury, kind of like they were lifted out of a super flavourful stew, and they melted in my mouth. Delicious. The grilled asparagus was just right - they tasted like high quality oily oil, they were crunchy, they had the delicious grilled flavour - very nice and basic.
We saved the flourless chocolate cake for home because we didn't want to skip it but were too full to have it right away. It was dense and chocolatey and sweet without being too sweet. Very good.
Our server was also quite pleasant and patient with us despite our questions and indecisiveness! I'd love to come back again and I hope to join the cooking class one day! :)
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