Get ready for a sumptuous treat like no other as the Pizza and Pasta Festival is back at Cidade de Goa for its third edition. With a vast list of options to choose from like the traditional flavoured Prawn Balchao, Occhio di Bue and Versuvio pizzas and pastas like the Lasagne al Forno Bolognese and Spaghetti Meat Ball al Salmon, you will be quite spoilt for choice. An interesting feature of this festival is the use of handmade pasta for these preparations. “ Usually when you make pastas, you use the pastas that are readily available in the market. But we have used pastas that have been prepared by the chefs here from scratch,” says Executive Chef Sunit Sharma.
And while you will be sorely tempted to eat everything on offer, do keep space for some interesting and sinful desserts which..wait for it...have been prepared with pizza and pasta too! “ We decided to plan the desserts in keeping with the pizza and pasta theme. We came up with a list of 40-50 options and after getting feedback from the staff and management we finally shortlisted the best ones,” reveals Chef Sharma. Those that made the list include Ravioli di Cioccolato con Crema Pasticccera which includes Ravioli stuffed with chocolate and served with creme patisserie and Lasagnedi Frttacon Miele e Gelato which is Lasagne of seasonal fruit with ice cream.
The Pizza and Pasta Festival is celebrated every Saturday and Sunday, month long in January. It will be an all-day arrangement, from 11 am to 11 pm.
So come and dig in. Italy is waiting for you, at the heart of Goa.
