BRUSSELS: Racines, a restaurant that has established itself as one of the best Italian restaurants in Brussels, if not Belgium is introducing a new concept for Friday lunch.
Since last Friday, friends Ugo Frederico and Francesco Cury have introduced what they call ‘la pasta popolare del venerdi’ or a traditional and popular pasta that they will serve each Friday.
The first pasta dish last week was Rigatoni alla Gricia, a popular dish from Roman cuisine which is made with rigatoni, pecorino romano, black pepper and guanciale.
They will be serving one pasta dish each week together with a selection of their favourite antipasti and a dessert.
This Friday’s pasta dish will be Rigatoni alla carbonara, another Roman classic. But they will be revisiting some of the most traditional and popular dishes that have made Italian cuisine what it is around the world. Among the other ‘popular’ pasta dishes that they will be serving in the coming weeks are the Amatriciana and the Puttanesca for example.
It is a generous 120 grammes of what they call ‘dreamy’ pasta for EUR 18.
This is a good chance to savour their take on some of Italian cuisine’s classic dishes particularly interpreted by a chef who has made pasta at Racines one of his signatures. Working with fresh pasta, they’ve built a repertoire of dishes that are worthy of a trip from their raviolo with a whole burrata and a tartare of red prawns to a tortellino carbonara and a pasta with nduja and provolone Silano (see photo above).
Ugo and Francesco got to know each other in 2004 when they worked together at renowned Florence restaurant Cibreo and have opened Racines in Brussels a few years ago.
Racines: 353 Chaussee d’Ixelles, Brussels
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