Ph: 02 9519 1063
Fax: 02 9519 1064
Email: pastizzicafe@bigpond.com
*** There are no EFTPOS facilities here. Cash ONLY.
Pastizzi is a traditional Maltese pastry, usually filled with Ricotta or Peas (description shamelessly stolen off wikipedia). The pastry is a thin, flaky puff pastry, hardened on the outermost layer for added texture.
This cafe serves several sweet & savoury varieties, and at $1.60 each (cooked) they are definitely worth a stopover for if you're in Newtown.
You can also buy them frozen in batch quantities for your own reheating. They also sell home-made desserts and sweet pastries.
Below: Chicken & Mushroom Pastizzi
Below: Lentil Pastizzi
Penne Arrabiatta Pasta (pictured below): Fresh herbs, proper tomato pasta sauce which 'hugs' the penne, and a tomato-chilli 'zing'. At $10, there is not much more you could ask for!
Chicken, Mushroom and Pinenut Risotto in a Pink Sauce (pictured below) : This special is so special, its not on the menu or specials menu. It was a recommendation by the waitress when asked for her opinion of the cafes' 'signature dish'. I have always been a skeptic of "pink sauces" (what the hell is a cross between napoletana & cream sauce anyway!) but this has definitely changed my mind. Once again, fresh herbs, slow-cooked & textured rice in a flavoursome sauce. I've also added chilli flakes in this photo. The pinenuts were a pleasant and very complimentary addition to the risotto dish, not bitter at all (sometimes when pinenuts are not used suitably in cooking the overall flavour of the dish becomes bitter).
Home-made lasagne (pictured below): I am a real sucker for lasagne, not the most tasteful Italian dish, but a proper one can be absolute heaven in carbohydrate form. This one was more liquidy than most, reminded me more of a casserole dish than of a lasagne, but nevertheless palatable and on par with everything else served at Pastizzi (i.e. good).
Definitely a repeat eatery - fresh, generous servings of mains and always a variety of nibbles on offer!
