Al Forno...with love.

Dinner at Al Forno always seems to be the most appropriate places to pick for a weekend. Reservations are a must as the place fills up so quickly. I can never get their penchant for plastic menus, a notch down from professional.

Simple layout.

Pizza Primavera ($25)
Tomato, mozzarella cheese, fresh rocket salad and parma ham   

Woodfired pizza! This took quite awhile to arrive. Parma ham and rockets are two major loves, when put together...mamma mia. Consistently good chewy bread base...

  
Verdure ($24)
Tomato, mozzarella cheese and mixed vegetables

Fit for the vegetarian lovers, pizzas with meat somehow taste better.

Pizza Con Carne ($25)
Tomato, mozzarella cheese, ham, salami, sausages & minced beef

Peppered with a smorgasbord of ingredients, the more prominent ingredient was minced beef balls. Flavourful, flavourful..flavourful!

Pizza Saporita ($25)
Tomato, mozzarella cheese, bacon, eggs & parmesan cheese


Personally not a fan of runny eggs but I found some leeway to relish this. Came across as Hawaiian Pizza without the pineapples.

Pizza Rollo


This was a personal favourite apart from Parma Ham. Only cheese lovers need attempt, two types of cheeses used; mozarella and ricotta.

The creaminess of ricotta and stickyness of mozarella paired with ham was pure divine. Comes with a tomato-chillipadi dip...yummmeh!

Al Aragosta ($28)

I was tempted because of lobster. If pizza took awhile to arrive, this took eternity of a liftime, in fact...it took forever after the pizza was polished off.

Half a fat lobster, meat was succulent and slightly fishy. The pasta fell flat with the overbearing fishy taste in every twirl. That probably made it even harder to stomach though the portion was not really that big.

I should have just stuck with the usual order of seafood pasta.

Gnocchi alla Sorrentina ($23)
Home made potato pasta with tomato and mozzarella cheese    

Shaped like shells or in the most unpalatable way, worms..these tasted quite floury than potato.

Spaghetti Al Forno

The newest addition on the menu, tomato-based spaghetti served with fish fillets and king prawn. The consistency of the noodles were cooked a tad soft, somehow it was slightly heavy on the tomato.

Stick with the pizzas for Al Forno, that's where their strength lies.

Al Forno East Coast
400 East Coast Road