Review

La Casa Nostra offers elevated home-style Italian dining with a broad menu featuring premium specialty ingredients. The cheese and cold cuts offering is a great beginning, including Joselito Iberico, beef bresaola, house-made porchetta, and beppino occelli al whisky or smoked scamorza to add a unique touch. For an array of small bites for sharing, order La Casa Nostra antipasto with charcuterie, smoked swordfish, burrata, Sicilian red prawn, olives, and dips, presented atop a crispy Sardinian Carasau bread base. Mozzarella di bufala e acciughe is a flavourful salad starter with creamy cheese that contrasts the slightly sharp saltiness of the anchovies. For pasta, try spaghetti neri e gamberi di Mazara de vallo; juicy and succulent Sicilian red prawns match the savory richness of viscous black ink sauce. Beef lovers will be delighted with the impressive steak menu, but a standout main is pollo alla cacciatora, the ultimate home-style dish, slow-cooked chicken thigh stew simmered for hours in a rich sauce of olives, mushrooms, white wine, sun-dried tomatoes, and fragrant herbs. There are plenty of tempting homemade dessert options, but torta di fichi, a creamy custard tart topped with fresh figs is a perfect not-too-sweet treat ensuring the meal ends on a satisfying note. The wine offering here is legendary, and the equally wide choice of by-glass options regularly changes.