London's Local Flavour Culinary Guide: Volume 6
London Ontario's Guide to Restaurants, Culinary Retailers, Craft Beer & Farmers' Markets
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Tomato Napoleon<br />
Chefs Jason Eccles<br />
and James Smith<br />
Traditional Italian<br />
& Mediterranean<br />
117 King Street (at Talbot)<br />
MAPS A & B: 10 519-434-2272<br />
OPEN MONDAY–SATURDAY<br />
Lunch & Dinner 11:30 am–Close<br />
closed sundays & holidays<br />
LUNCH: $9–$20<br />
DINNER: $10–$35<br />
lacasaristorante.com<br />
Steps to Budweiser Gardens<br />
THE SCENE<br />
Across from the Covent Garden Market<br />
In the middle of King Street’s Perfect for Groups, Birthdays, Rehearsal<br />
restaurant row, across the street Lunches & Dinners, Small Weddings,<br />
from the Covent Garden Market and Receptions and Private Dining<br />
kitty corner to Budweiser Gardens Outstanding Scotch Selection<br />
stands La Casa, with a stylish black Fresh Daily Food Specials<br />
brick façade. One enters the dining<br />
room through a short hallway, as<br />
one might enter a gracious home. Intimately<br />
Beef Tenderloin<br />
candle-lit by night, large windows provide<br />
lots of natural light by day.<br />
MENU HIGHLIGHTS<br />
La Casa encapsulates its Italian roots by<br />
offering traditional home-style fare such<br />
as risotto, ravioli, lasagne, spicy lobster<br />
& shrimp fettuccine and angel hair pasta. The<br />
menus emphasize the classics of the Italian<br />
culinary canon and the authenticity that comes<br />
from family recipes handed down through the<br />
generations. The pastas are all made in-house.<br />
The restaurant does its own smoking, baking and<br />
desserts. The sourdough starter is 20 years old<br />
now! Recommendations include:<br />
• Rack of Lamb — herb-crusted Ontario lamb, with roasted red potatoes, vegetable<br />
ratatouille and a shiraz-lamb sauce;<br />
• Seafood Risotto — lobster, seared scallops, shrimp, diced pancetta, mascarpone<br />
cheese and fresh pea shoots;<br />
• Beef Tenderloin — 8-ounce hand-cut fillet, with asparagus tips, garlic mashed<br />
potatoes, roasted portebello mushroom and a beef jus demi-glace.<br />
Veal Marsala, veal tenderloin tower,<br />
on a spinach & wild mushroom risotto<br />
gâteau, in a marsala reduction<br />
Salmone Della Casa, fresh salmon,<br />
one of the daily specials, always uniquely<br />
flavoured and always with a grilled prawn<br />
Calamari, marinated and lightly<br />
pan-fried, with a lemon-dill beurre<br />
blanc<br />
RESTAURANTS www.eatdrink.ca London’s <strong>Local</strong> <strong>Flavour</strong><br />
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