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so it’s been a while. we ate italian for churd’s birthday at terroni’s on adelaide. overall impression was that it was over salted even though not all the dishes were over salted. a lot of the dishes had pancetta or prociutto. the design of the interior was neato and casual feel was nice.

we got three appetizers. this fig-honey-walnut-prociutto-gorgonzola cheese was my favourite. the other two were: fried calamari and deep fried trio of eggplant, artichoke and some random meatloafy substance.. which probably tasted better than i’m making it sound.

we also got one pizza to share. it was prociutto, pear, gorgonzola and honey. similar to the appetizer but with pear instead of fig. i was very grateful for this sweet pizza because the pasta dish was way over salty.

my pasta dish was bucatini a l’amatriciana it had tomato sauce, guanciale pancetta and pecorino cheese. the pasta itself was pretty good and was interesting to eat. the flavour was very baconey and super salty–to the point of tasting slightly bitter. i was slightly disappointed as this dish had many raves on online reviews.

terrence got spaghetti coi cucuzzielli which had deep fried zucchini with guanciale pancetta, pecorino cheese and mint. he chose this dish because he has an obsession with mint. of the 3 pasta dishes i thought that this one was the most palatable but he said that a full serving is too much oil.

churd’s dish was one of the specials. i can’t remember the exact dish name but it was pappardelle with wild boar. it tasted basically like pulled pork with pappardelle.  he said it was too much salt in the end too.

for dessert, we had blueberry gelato, crema? gelato and panna cotta. the panna cotta was quite good. very creamy and jiggly like jiggly boobies. the blueberry gelato had a nice fresh flavour.

the menu was very interesting and there were so many dishes i’d like to have tried but after the way over salty bucatini, i’d have to say that it will be a while before i’d consider going back.