Portobello Ristorante is a tiny Italian restaurant located on West Broadway that we’ve often frequented in the past.
We started out with the Fungo Portobello Gratinato ($12) – portobello mushrooms stuffed with crispy garlic croutons, fresh herbs, and served with a roasted red pepper sauce.
That was followed up with the Ossobuco Classico ($28) – generous serving of fork-tender veal shank braised with red wine rosemary, carrots, celery, and served with risotto.
All of the food was great… including the Chocolate Pistachio Torte dessert made with pecans from Sicily.
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Dine out 2014. Went to a dine out, I didn't expect much due to the reduced price set menu, my group pretty much ordered all the possible variation of the set menu, so pretty much we tried it all, this is my rating:
food: it was good, but nothing was really out of the extra ordinary. 3.5/5
portion: the portion is good, i was very very satisfied at the amount of food given, despite my thoughts of typical dining experience 4/5
liquor: i didn't drink this time, but was looking at the liquor collection, pretty good, 20 bottles min - 30 bottles max collection ready, I didn't notice anything special or that can't be bought in canada or the states typical liquor store. not rating it, because I didn't try any of the drinks.
ambience: ambience is a romantic, rather small, calm with many repeat customers. 4.5/5
service: service was great, nothing to complain about. 4/5
overall i would say it's a 3.5 base on the food itself, hmmm i would recommend the place, however it's not going to at top of my mind during my recommendation during most of the time.
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Above my expectations. Fungo Portobello Gratinato (Portobello mushroom stuffed with garlic croutons, fresh herbs Served with roasted red pepper sauce) $10 4.5/5 - There was 1.5 portobello. The crushed croutons made it even more filling. The top was baked perfectly to make it crunchy.
Insalata Caesar (Crisp romaine lettuce with our own homemade croutons, grated parmesan cheese) $7 3/5 - fresh but nothing exciting.
Linguine con Gamberi & Rombo (Tiger Prawns, Halibut, sautéed with Vodka Garlic, olive oil, fresh herbs, spicy tomato sauce) 3/5 - good plain simple, just like homemade. The pasta looked dry but it wasn't.
Gamberi Al Cognac (1dozen Tiger prawns pan seared, flambéed with cognac in a light rose sauce. Served with Risotto) $24 4.5/5 - I'm not a big fan of risotto but that was good. It wasn't bland as some of the ones I had. There was more sauce that what I wanted. I put some of it on the risotto which made it even better. I want to order this again.
Tiramisu (Our own made-in the house Savoiardi biscotti soaked with espresso coffee and Rum Italian mascarpone cheese and zabaglione dusted with organic Belgian cacao) 3.5/5 $8 - This was bigger than the creme brulee. I could taste the liquor.
The appetizers were big and they could be the entrees in some restaurants. The restaurant charged our host $120 because she made a date change. She said she emailed the restaurant but they said they never received anything. Our server was nice enough to deduct the $120 off our bill.
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