Chic Delights: Italian Food

One of my favourite things do to on a summer's night is to go out with my friends for dinner and then stroll around the city. This time we tried for the first time the restaurant Gusto 101 located at Portland St and near the cool and busy King St West. We visited here on Friday night after work and we had great company and conversations in this wonderful place. Gusto 101 is my new favourite restaurant as it has a cool vibe, wonderful service and delicious drinks, menu and dessert. They serve a variety of Italian spritzes drinks, serves authentic Italian food and desserts. My favourite is their Mafalde ai funghi (mushroom and truffle cream pasta) which is the best I have ever tasted outside of Italy. Then for dessert, we have their olive cake which every one agreed is delicious. I like this restaurant very much which their name Gusto is just perfect.

Mafalde ai funghi which is a combination of portobello, porcini and oyster mushroom with truffle cream sauce.

A summer's night stroll along King St West with the view of the CN Tower.

After a visit to the ROM Museum, we hungrily stopped by at Cibo Wine Bar, located at Bloor-Yorkville in Toronto for a late lunch. This restaurant is one of the best and reliable Italian restaurants in the area with the authentic Italian menu created by chef Salverio Macri. It's always busy especially in the evenings. We were a hungry bunch as we ordered several appetisers from the fried zucchini and fried artichokes, grilled calamari with salad, portobello mushrooms and the salumi tray (photo below). We also ordered our own pastas but we ate it so fast before we can take photos. The Italian pizza at Cibo are one of the best as we ordered the Pizza Margherita, Pizza di Nicolino and lastly, the Nutella Pizza which is to die for. Everything was delicious. Even my Italian sister in law and my nephew and niece were happy and satisfied with our choice.