Bon Appétit

What’s the best way to top off your day then dinner with a good friend, Martha! She decided to make reservations this time (last time we spent 45 minutes just trying to find a restaurant that didn't have more than a 20 minute wait). She picked Trattoria Mercatto, an Italian restaurant in the heart of Toronto’s Eaton Centre. 

We started off with a Shiraz wine – before we ordered our main dish Martha gave me a word of warning: “the servings are small here”, which I translated as 'we will have room for dessert'.

I had the RAVIOLO: ricotta filled, tomato, grana padano and basil

  

Martha had the RIGATONI: alla bolognese, grana padano and basil

Overall, the pasta wasn’t bad, it was flavourful and fresh, but the tomato sauce was a bit too acidic for my taste. I’m accustomed to my mom’s homemade pasta sauce that would sit on the stove for hours to reduce the acidic tang; it’s hard to get use to the restaurant quality tomato sauce.

We still had room to share dessert -- CARAMEL COPETTA: bitter caramel gelato, salted peanuts, marshmallow and whipped cream; this was yummy!!!