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| - A friend was visiting from Montreal, and her flight got here at 9:30pm. Naturally she'd be hungry when she got off the plane, so I wanted to go hit up a restaurant that was open late. And not just any restaurant - I wanted her first impression of Calgary to be HOT.
Decided to try Una Pizza because from what I'd heard, it served all purposes: it was open late, it had good food, and it was buzzing!
So we showed up last night around 10pm. (I had checked on Twitter already and apparently there was no wait.) The place was packed! I had never seen any restaurant in Calgary so packed so late on a Wednesday night. We were greeted in a few minutes and led through the extremely busy restaurant towards the back. There were 3 spots free infront of the chef's cooking area so we got seated immediately. My friend and I are both foodies so we thought that seat might be the best in the house since we would get to see the chefs do their magic.
After much deliberation (everything on the menu looked great!), we decided to have 3 pintxos, 2 share plates, 1 pizza and a bottle of wine. The pintxos were little bite sized bits of deliciousness made of red pepper, boccocini-type cheese and white anchovies. Very different from anything I've tasted before and very good! We then dove into our share plate of sauteed prawn with red chilli and sambuca. It was So. GOOD. We all agreed that this was absolutely delicious. We even soaked up all the sauce with our bread. Then we tried the scallops plate, and that was good too. Our pizza - a mushroom, cheese and arugula pizza was also delicious!
One thing that was really remarkable was the service. The food was coming really fast, and we could see it being made right infront of our eyes. And the waitress kept refilling our wine glasses. The chefs were relaxed, kept joking with each other and talked to us about the desserts, and just random stuff. It was a really fun place, and a fun night.
I was really pleased with our dinner, and my friend from Montreal kept saying we picked a great place to come for dinner. I will defintiely be back!
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