August 3, 2007: Casa Farro

Update 31/12/2014: Casa Farro has unopen down, replaced past times some other Italian restaurant, Melbourne Food as well as Wine Festival must accept moved closer to us. It turns out that that house was called Pizza Farro, non Casa Farro as well as it seems equally though Casa Farro has been on Nicholson Street for at to the lowest degree equally long equally we've lived here. Weird. Anyway, what both 'Farro' pizza shops accept inwards mutual is a focus on spelt flour pizza bases. I approximate it's skilful for people who accept problems alongside wheat (although apparently non for people alongside gluten intolerance - I don't actually sympathise the difference), but the divergence isn't actually noticeable. At to the lowest degree to me.

Anyway, having sorted out that Casa Farro was only some the corner from us, Cindy as well as I decided to hit it a shot. We wandered inwards at 8:30 on a Fri eve as well as establish enough of gratis tables. The vibe is pleasant - the walls are filled alongside mirrors, wooden chopping boards as well as other atmospheric bits as well as pieces. The focus of the bill of fare is pizza obviously, but in that location are also foccacias, pastas as well as a few other (meaty) mains. There are 7 vegetarian pizzas on the menu, all of which audio delicious as well as a few of which are at to the lowest degree slightly odd (artichoke puree anyone?). I was keen to sample a pizza each, but Cindy had her oculus on dessert as well as thence nosotros only settled on a funghi pizza as well as a light-green salad (although it turns out they brought out the incorrect salad - nosotros ended upwardly having to pick out the crisp prosciutto). The pizza was bang-up - cheesy (both mozzarella as well as taleggio), sprinkled alongside a multifariousness of mushrooms, some fresh parsley as well as a dash of truffle oil. It was perfectly cooked as well as sufficiently large - Cindy made the correct choice, 2 pizzas would accept been also much.

Of course, sticking to i pizza also meant dessert - Cindy was forthwith drawn to the many nutella-based options as well as the combination of raspberry, nougat as well as nutella all wrapped upwardly inwards a calzone was also much to resist. She was pretty impressed - peculiarly alongside the filling.

I opted for 'Nonna's Tart' - an orange-y tart served upwardly alongside H2O ice cream. It was fairly low-cal as well as real tasty - an first-class (and rare) non-chocolate based dessert. Nice i Casa Farro!

Address: 161 Nicholson Street, Carlton
Ph: 9347 2112
Price: Vego pizzas: $15-$17, Dessert: $6-$10
Licensed
Website: http://casafarro.com.au/