Shrouded in leafy foliage, this upmarket restaurant along Lorong Kurau is a superb spot when it comes to Italian eats. The trendy setting sees white tablecloths and concrete walls, with long tables great for group celebrations. The menu here is blessed with options, but look to the truffled dishes to blow your mind. Dinner begins with a cool starter, the Cold Capellini (from RM58) that's creatively spun with truffle paste, kombu and sea urchin. For a primi (pasta), don't miss the Tagliatelle (RM78). Easily one of our favourite pastas of all time, the gorgeous tagliatelle is sauced with truffle butter, and then topped with a wobbly egg yolk. If you're here in the day, take advantage of their value for money set lunches — a Barramundi Alla Griglia Con Pesto (pan seared barramundi) will set you back only RM34 with a soup and a drink! Reservations are recommended in this small space. Pro tip: Mario & Luigi doesn't charge for corkage, so go ahead and bring your own bottle for this.
Avg price per person: RM120
Photo by Burppler Emily Choong
"In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta"-Steven Albini.. That's very true in our context of heaven being of Mario & Luigi and after our elegant antipasti of burrata, we were whisked away to the primi course (pasta time). For primi, we had their tagliatelle with truffle butter that was served to us with a beautiful sunshine of an egg yolk. The advise from the server is to mix it to get more flavour being incorporated of the truffle butter, the egg yolk with the pasta while it's still hot.. The tagliatelle is just silky smooth with that earthy yet buttery truffle flavour that's just sings so beautifully like how Pavarotti would sing in the opera; loud yet clear as a whistle and it wasn't fighting on the plate for us to notice it! Delicious plate of food, done well and oh so satisfying! Can't stop thinking about it as every bite of the pasta with that truffle butter makes you fall in love even more just like you've found true love but with a plate of beautiful looking pasta!
