ShoeShanghai’s long-standing Italian restaurant, undergoes a rebirth with the approaching of recent chef Lorenzo Merolle. Menu highlights see refined renditions of Italian handmade pastas and opulent pizzas with recent, extra-large burrata cheese.

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About Scarpetta Shanghai

I've fairly the private connection to Scarpetta. It was one of many earliest eating places I wrote about again once I first began this line of labor. I’ve seen it develop and witnessed its transformation over time, from humble trattoria to a fast bout of Japanese-Italian to its present standing of a fantastic Italian restaurant.

The newest iteration of Scarpetta’s conventional Italian delicacies is maybe its most refined.

The menu sees house-made pastas bathed in easy, silken sauces and blanketed with 36-month aged Parmigiano Reggiano. ​Luxurious pizzas are topped with huge balls of burrata, made recent regionally and extra-large at a whopping 150 grams completely for Scarpetta. Even the humblest of dishes, the focaccia, is unforgettable for its crunchy crust and chewy, moist inside. The hydration is insane.

In addition, most dishes indulge company with a showy show of table-side service, a efficiency made memorable by Executive Chef Lorenzo Merolle.

Lorenzo Merolle joined Scarpetta earlier this yr, first as marketing consultant then rapidly ascending to grow to be the group’s Italian government chef. The Rome-native comes from a restaurateur household and has 15 years {of professional} expertise working in Rome, London, Sydney, and Shanghai, most lately at Amanyangyun and Frasca at The Middle House.

The Food at Scarpetta

Scarpetta shouldn't be a typical on a regular basis affair as it's on the upper finish of the size, however truthfully, it’s not by a lot, particularly given the distinctive high quality of substances, glossy eating room, and excellent service.

Menu highlights are laborious to overlook: You’re right here for some fancy pizza and beautiful pastas.

The star pizza is the Signature Burratona. Don’t let the sticker shock deter you! This pizza is value it.

Toppings of ricotta cheese, parmesan, and recent mozzarella act as a base for the important thing ingredient to shine — the recent burrata cheese. The pizza is given lashings of shiny inexperienced olive oil, shaved cured egg yolk, and recent basil. It comes with a complete present — the burrata is reduce table-side, and the pizza completed with garnishes.

It’s a super-duper milky and creamy chunk with a touch of shiny acidity from the tomato sauce and yeasty aromas from the chewy, pliable crust.

There are 5 different pizzas on the menu, starting from ¥208, a margherita with recent burrata and scarmoza to ¥288, a wealthy foie gras and porcini mushroom with truffles. A pizza just like the Burratona is loads for 2 with an appetizer and dessert.

I do advocate the Garlic Foccacia earlier than the pizza. I used to be implored by chef to attempt a serving, regardless of being guilt-torn by the forthcoming pizza and a number of pastas, however was not disillusioned once I ate the foccacia. These hyper-hydrated focaccia slices are value each carb depend — crispy tops and corners with a spongy, moist inside. Served with spreads of confit garlic, smoky-spicy nduja and tomato, and sesame shiso pesto.

There are at the moment eight pastas on the menu, most with house-made recent pastas, which change seasonally.

The Tomato & Gragnano Fusilloni is totally improbable, once more by suggestion of chef Lorenzo. It reads easy: tomato, parmigiano Reggiano, and colatura, the Italian model of aged fish sauce for added umami, however it’s rather more complicated than that.

The easy, luscious tomato sauce is made with a mix of three sorts of tomatoes. It’s a thick sauce that coats the al dente spiral pasta with a candy and a mild tartness, and recent tomato flavors. Coincidentally, this pasta can also be the chef’s proudest creation.

The indulgence continues with the Alfredo Fettucine. Fresh made pasta is cooked in a wheel of 36-month aged Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, flambéed with sweet-floral brandy, and completed with scarmoza and butter.

It’s a nutty, creamy, candy, and complicated tasting pasta, and never a dish I might doubtless share.

Finally, the Bone Marrow & Ragu Tagliatelle caps the meal with a fatty, wealthy be aware. The ragu is a labor of affection, a mix of veal, wagyu M9 mince, and Iberico pork, simmered down with Primitivo crimson wine, then completed with garlic oil and butter. Roasted bone marrow is spooned onto the pasta and combined.

It’s a chunky ragu, a beneficiant portion with fresh-made taglliatelle pasta. It’s a dish of deep, wealthy flavors.

For appetizers, attempt the Beef Carpaccio and Tartarea two-way chilly dish made with Australian M9 beef, pickled mushrooms, and truffle aioli topped with parmesan chips, and the Baby Squid Panzanellatender squid filled with crispy panzanella and shallots over a mattress of chickpea purée with fried capers.

For mains, there are a number of cuts of steak, pan-seared fish, and grilled crimson prawns. I like to recommend the Roasted Sanhuang Chicken, a form of surf and turf variation, as it's served with a sautéed clam sauce. The rooster itself is tenderized in papaya water, then marinated with yogurt, rosemary, and lemon. It’s served over sourdough bread slices, which absorb all that scrumptious sauce.

For dessertthe choice is extra experimental, and a few are remnants from the earlier Japanese-Italian take. For instance, there’s an almond tofu panna cotta and a Kanazawa Caramel Budino, a pudding that pulls from Italian and Japanese delicacies. But there’s additionally a extra conventional Tiramisu, too.

New on the dessert menu is the Coconut shakeimpressed by a coconut cocktail of the identical identify, made with salty chocolate sable, coconut mousse, Bailey’s cream, and balck pepper popcorn.

For drinksthere are some cocktails, however it’s principally winewhich begins from ¥78 by the glass and ¥368 by the bottle.

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Shoe Shanghai
Address: 33 Mengzi Lu, close to Xujiahui Lu 33 Mengzi Lu, close to Xujiahui Lu
Tel: 33768223
Hours: Daily, 5pm-9:30pm