Area: a 5-min. walk northwest of Fushimi Station 伏見駅
Restaurant: Trattoria La Stella トラットリア ラ ステッラ
Map and info: http://tabelog.com/aichi/A2301/A230102/23000721/dtlmap/?lid=tocoupon2
Hours: Lunch 11am-2:30pm, Dinner 5:30-10pm
Although the website says lunch is served until 2:30pm, I've come at 2pm before and they were already closed. So this time I took advantage of a 1:30pm start lunch break and came here. It looks like an old run down Italian resto from the outside, so I never considered entering. However on the web, it seems to have gotten a good star review (3.43 stars).
Even on the inside it looks run down and outdated with blue and white tableclothes (mine had a cigarette burn hole in it). The white chair covers were visibly held together by safety pins.
The pasta lunch (¥900) came with a panini and small salad. The salad was dressed with a garlicky white concoction; not a Cesar or French dressing, I'm not sure what it was, but it was very mild. The focaccia bread used for the tuna panini was nice; a subtle olive oil flavor and moist with a crunchy top crust. The omelette was standard, nothing really stood out here.
There were 3 pastas to choose from. Tuna tomato sauce, sausage cream sauce and shellfish cabbage oil sauce. I went for the oil sauce . It was covered in way too much black pepper and the sauce was more of a soup broth than oil. The shellfish, called kobashiira, were like baby scallops, but I think it's actually a part of the clam family. They were soft and a portion of them were minced, which made the sauce a bit thicker in consistency; this was a nice touch. It's too bad the black pepper overpowered the mild seafood flavors. The spaghetti noodles were probably just dried pasta, but were al dente.
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