#3 Anima e Cuore

The third coffee shop in the book is Anima e Cuore - Soul and Heart in English.

For these place a created a lot of expectation because the book says that they have colorful macaroons, choux pastries, brioche and 20 diffetent biscuits. Hmm.. wasn't exactly like that.

When you get in, the first thing you can see are the amazing gelatos, then a small counter with some cakes and two enormous cheese, parmeggiano 24 and 36 month. Despite of be disappointed for not find many options or macarons, we were very well served for friendly italian girls.

We chose a apple cake ball, served with amaretti gelato, a tiramisu and two lattes. The coffee were nicely served in a huge glass but unfortunatly weren't hot enough. The tiramisu was ok, but I couldn't find a amaretti or coffee alcohol flavor, just white cream with cocoa powder. The best for the last, the apple cake with the amaretti gelato was AMAZING. The good service and the apple cake worthed the visit.

Late in that week, some friend told me that this place serve great pasta for dinner and you must book a table. So I did, and more or less one moth later, we were back to the italian place.

They are actually very busy at saturday night, all the tables were occupied. We arrived and the same friendly italian girl greeted us and leaded us until our reserved table. She served us a small started wirh grisini, a savoury sitck, and two square savoury cakes. A few minutes later the Chef came at our table to explain the menu.

For a starter we chose Beef Tartare and Strangola preti. The Strangola preti is basically a very tasty green gnocchi. For the Beef Tartare, we didn't know, but "tartare" means raw so we didn't enjoy, our mistake. Anyway, the restaurante is very concern about the people satisfaction and sent us another starter, on the house, with tuna cream and some savoury tuilles, very nice and beautiful apresentation.

For the main course, our choice were Fettucine with rubbit and aspargus; Ravioli aubergine and asiago. Just one word to describe both dishes: DELICIOUS! Ah, for drink, they don't serve alcohol, so you can bring from home if you want to :)