Italian flashback at Italo

Note that Italo closed down in January 2024!

We have been to Italo a few times before and it is a sort of a hidden gem in Stavanger. During the day it is a small café with good homemade gelato, delicious coffee and selection of various goods (such as coffee beans, dried pasta, olive oil etc) – and in the evening you can get good pasta with some wine. We stopped by on a weekday afternoon to get some food before going to the movies and there are many classic pasta dishes to choose from. I chose linguine all cozze e Vongole (pasta with mussels and vongole shells) and Nikki decided to have Pasta all'Amatriciana.

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  Seafood pasta

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  Pasta

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  Seafood pasta

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  Tiramisu

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  Chocolate sorbet

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Pasta is basically Italian fast food and so our pasta was served within minutes. My linguine was like a lot of food in Italy – that is, few ingredients, quite simple yet so lovely. The pasta was in focus in this dish but with some mussels and vongole shells mixed in together with a couple of small tomatoes and herbs. There was also a bit of fresh bread so I could soak up some of the lovely juice from the pasta. Nikki was pleased with her Pasta all'Amatriciana, a pasta with tomato sauce with guanciale (cured pork cheeks), some chili and some parmiggiano reggiano! As the pasta came so quickly (and I still had room for more food), I ended up getting some tiramisu for dessert. This one was also very tasty even though I would have soaked the biscuits a bit more. Nikki enjoyed a chocolate sorbet – i.e. dark chocolate ice cream that is made without any dairy products! We also got a small taste of the other varieties of gelato that they have and here there is a lot to choose from! "Grazie mille" to Italo for a great meal that gave us flashback to our trip to Naples last October! Next time I hope that you also have some whipped cream so I can have my espresso con panna.

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  Interior

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  Products

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  Interior