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Italian Restaurant in Dublin: Il pomo d’oro

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Italian Restaurant in Dublin: Il pomo d’oro

when two good Sicilian chefs get together and take over a restaurant in elegant premises and surroundings, the prognosis is quite good. This is the case of Matteo Patti and Cristian Privitera who have recently pledged to make a success of a former French Restaurant at n.10, South William Street, Dublin 2, which has become a haunt for good food punters. “Il pomo d’Oro”, which can seat up to 120 people on two floors, has a very elegant, almost baroque interior. Its menu is extensive with many pasta and pizza dishes, together with meat and fish main courses. It’s almost a sacrilege to eat pizza in such an elegant ambience, on the other hand who said that pizza can only be eaten in taverns?

The input from the two Sicilian chefs is palpable, with swordfish and red mullet featuring both as ingredients in some pasta sauces and as main courses. On our first visit to “Il pomo d’oro”, not being too hungry, my companion chose Spaghetti Pacino with a minced meat, white wine, peas and cream sauce, while I settled for Spaghetti Costa with an original broccoli, prawns, white wine and saffron sauce. Personally I do not condone the use of cream in “Italian” dishes, but used in moderation, as was the case of our two dishes, cream had an excellent taste binding effect, and the prawns in my pasta dish were “real” Dublin Bay prawns, which have become an endangered species in most restaurants nowadays.
Ever since we have visited Il Pomo d’oro a few more times for lunch and tried more of their pasta and pizza dishes which were excellent both in preparation and inventiveness.

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