Ristorante La Trinita
I rarely have favourite anythings but La Trinita has to be
my absolute favourite restaurant. It’s a combination of great food, ambience
and the best service.
It’s a small, family-run, Italian restaurant hidden away in
the Kyalami Downs Centre. As soon as you enter the restaurant, you’re greeted
as if you’re family and made to feel comfortable. The mother and daughter duo,
Tessa and La-La, have very good memories and even remember the time last you
visited.
After you’re ushered to your table and given delicious warm
breads, the chef La-La comes to take your order giving personal attention. I
don’t even bother looking at the menu. La-La asks what you feel like eating or
what flavours you like or dislikes and suggests your meals for you. She also
goes into great detail describing the special dishes for the day that makes
your mouth water.
The restaurant is definitely a place for everyone. There’s a
kiddies area and large table arrangements for bigger crowds and there’s quiet
corners for a romantic date too. The waiters are helpful but generally out of
sight and not really needed with La-La’s hands-on approach. When La-La is busy
in the kitchen, they are, however, just as knowledgeable about all the dishes
and their flavours and extremely helpful.
For starters, we settled on soup. I loved the butternut soup
topped with a little bit of chilli the last time I visited La Trinita so I
ordered it again. Still delicious but I this time I tasted the mushroom soup. Divine!
Rich and creamy and tasty!
I’ve heard many good things about La-La’s seven layer
lasagne but it’s not a menu item because when she prepares lasagne, it sells
out so fast. I called the day before and asked her to make her lasagne and to
save a piece for me. The piece she saved for me was more like a family-sized
portion. I barely made it through a third of the dish. The sauce is rich and
creamy. The lasagne sheets hid away layers of the mince sauce, soft mushrooms
and béchamel sauce. My favourite was the generous layer of the mince sauce on
top which give it a perfect balance of everything – not too much pasta and not
too much filling. I can see why people rate it the best lasagne they’ve ever
had.
And just when I thought a dish could not get tastier, I took
a bite of my date’s main course – kingklip with a lemony caper sauce topped
with bacon. The sauce complemented the fish so well and who would ever think of
adding bacon to a fish dish. The saltiness of the bacon played well with the
citrus flavours of the sauce which kept each bite of fish rich, moist and
flavourful throughout the meal.
To end our meal, we shared a tiramisu which the waiter told
me is the best dessert on the menu. It was as you’d expect a good tiramisu to
taste. When it was time to leave, I was hugged goodbye, given my doggy bag (to
taste La-La’s cooking again the next night) and given a take-away menu. The
pizzas are perfect for a quiet night in but I think I’d rather dine at the
restaurant next time too.
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The combination of good ambiance and the good food makes any restaurant the best.So it is very important to serve the customers in a well manner for the point of restaurants..
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