01.15.07

Viva Italia

Posted in Eat & Drink at by bigmouth

Casa Farro

2 out of 5

This currently ranks as CB’s favourite pizza house and the absolute reverse for BigMouth.

The fare is yummy enough. All its pizzas use spelt flour (a non-hybrid form of wheat) and are baked in a large wood-fire oven.

But it’s the up-market price that BigMouth finds a tad difficult to stomach. Still, one mustn’t grumble. The bottled wine is reasonably priced and there is a range of light Italian blends and richer vintages to match the menu.

Casa Farro embraces you like a warm Italian home. On the walls are cheesecloth curtains, shiny copper pots and hundreds of rolling-pins.

On last night’s outing we samples the Osso Buco pizza thick with napoli, mozzarella, osso buco, olives, fresh rocket & shaved parmesan (cost: $19).

We finished with the chocolate custard with raspberries and nougat pizza (cost: $9.5) although CB misread the menu and was hoping the second ingredient was strawberries.

For the record, the items that annoy BigMouth are:

• The size offering is inflexible. The main, depending on how it is cut, is a six or eight slice (the equivalent of a medium at many other establishments).  The dessert pizza is a four slice (equivalent of a small).
• No half-and-half option. The topics are preset on the menu and there is no point in asking for variety in a mix-and-match setting.
• No home delivery. However you can ring through an order and pick it up yourself; so at least they have that to their credit. 

However we will return; whenever it is CB’s turn to pick a pizza place.

• Location:  161 Nicholson Street, Carlton
• Phone: 9347 2112
• URL: http://www.casafarro.com.au/
• Spelt flour - Wikipedia
• Cooking with Spelt flour RecipeSource 

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