Eat Out London!Strada
Italian restaurant in Wimbledon offering hand-stretched pizzas, fresh pastas, salads, risotto and grilled meat and fish.
Italian restaurant in Wimbledon - Strada
I mainly tucked into the Strozzapreti Pugliese, a gorgeous, real Italian treat that consists of the most unusual and delightfully chewy rope pasta, with spicy Luganica sausage, smoked Pancetta, and broccoli, with red chilli butter & Grana Padano cheese.
The combination of the smoky meat with the crisp and refreshing vegetable and the extra oomph from the chilli and grated cheese was like an explosion of all my favourite things ever in my mouth and each bite never failed to make me smile.
My friend meanwhile took a real shine to the other bowl, which was Risotto Zucca, a Pumpkin and butternut squash wet rice dish with crispy Pancetta, soft mouth-watering spinach and pine nuts which lent the whole dish an extra layer, the light oil fried nuts simply bursting with an aftertaste that was long to be forgotten and forever remembered greatly.
What was most unusual about this dish is that appealed to my friend, who would never usually order risotto, despite being a fan of all the ingredients.
We received a twelve inch thin crust Quattro Stagioni, which included differently topped slices of Luganica sausage which was like salted beef but was ground finely and had a garlicky kick for those that enjoy that sort of thing, Italian cotto ham which was again, perfectly sliced to a thinner than paper whisp, and just chewy enough, delicious roasted artichoke for Vegetarians sick of the same old ‘three-cheese-pizza’ and chestnut mushrooms, which for either meat eaters or those with herbivorous tendencies was simply mouth wateringly refreshing and would only not appeal to those who have a pre-existing mushroom problem.