Uccello, Sydney CBD, Sydney
Uccello is an Italian restaurant located on the top of Sydney’s Ivy establishment – next to the famous Ivy pool bar area. It’s a one hat restaurant serving Italian cuisine which we had decided to check out for a birthday celebration.
Arriving around 6:30pm on a Friday meant that the place was buzzing with the after work office crowd and unfortunately we were initially seated at the edge of the restuarant – towards the open pool bar area. This meant that it was quite hard to make conversation given the music and noise from the other guests. A quick comment to the waiter and we were whisked inside to a more quiet table.
The menu isn’t very extensive so it seems they have chosen to be quite selective on what they offer.
We ordered 2 entrees, 2 mains and 1 dessert, however given that we ordered 2 pasta mains, we probably could have done with less. The pasta itself is quite filling.
Linguine marinara with scampi, clams, mussels, prawns, calamari – $37 – Disappointingly for a one hat restaurant, the first serving of this pasta, came out under done. The pasta was still very chewy and hard on the inside. A word to the waiter and they immediately sent it back to be redone. The second time around it was much better. A generous amount of seafood in a light tomato based sauce. One of the better marinas I’ve had.
Chitarra, guanciale, S.marzano tomatoes, pecorino – $34 – A less common pasta, I had to ask the waitress to explain almost all the ingredients, lol. The chitarra pasta is a thicker, rougher cut variation of spaghetti, reminiscent some think hand cut egg noodles. Guanicole is a type of ham and this provided the flavour hit to the dish – kinda like bacon chunks. Percorino was the sprinkling of cheese on top which made the dish complete. My favourite of the 2 pastas.
