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Specialty: Southern Italian Cuisine
Location: Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
Menu items: Funghi Assoluti + Pizza C't Mang + Torta Calda al Cioccolato
Drink Pairing: Red Negroamaro
A friend of mine introduced me to this place almost 6 years ago. Since then, most of our dinner rendez-vous take place at Terroni. I highly recommend the Queen/Bathurst location, after all this is where it all started and the location never disappoints.
Our meal started off with our favourite appetizer, Funghi Assoluti
I am not sure if its the combination of balsamic with parmigiano, or the baby arugula; but this oyster mushroom salad dish has been a fixation of ours for 6 years. There has not been a time when we don't order this to kick-start our meals. Well, I take that back, red wine always takes precedence. This time I had a great Negroamaro, which is a very well known grape from the region of Salento.
For our Primi we decided to try a different kind of pizza. We usually get the Puzza, but we discovered not so long ago the lovely C't Mang and once again we fell in love with Terroni.
C't Mang is a prosciutto with pears pizza; which combined, offset the strong taste of the meat. The pears along with the mozzarella also serve as an opening ingredient to the Gorgonzola (Italian blue cheese). And right before you can say "still too strong", the honey drizzled on top of the pizza just makes all of the lovely strong, sweet and salty flavours come together. Buon Appetito!
To finish off the night, and make it a traditional visit to Terroni, we order dessert - Torta Calda al Cioccolato
I am just going to go ahead and describe it, because is that good! This is a warm flourless chocolate cake drizzled with white chocolate ganache. As you can see form the picture, the cake is soft and moist. Once your spoon digs in, there is not stopping from than moment on.
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