Like the sandwich, pizza is at its best when it is kept to a few superb ingredients, and Santa Maria's bufalina exemplifies this.
Mr. Colicchio gave a nightly tutorial on the basics of cooking, coaxing big flavors from superb ingredients, serving his meat in little more than reduced pan juices, and often getting his best results from cheap cuts like breast of veal.
Even with such a superb ingredient, I take a more culinary approach: as a chef, I intervene in the preparation, and create a complete dish that is satisfying on many levels.
And yet they're superb central ingredients.
A carpaccio di manzo ($6.95), slim, rare, slices of filet mignon and parmigiano shavings over a clump of greens, and two salads (both $6) -- a cheesy traditional Caesar and a Belgian endive, roasted Holland pepper concoction covered with Stilton cheese dressing -- boasted superb fresh ingredients.
Mains from £14, Warehouse Lane, 028-9031 3199, themuddlersclubbelfast.com With high-fliers Eipic and James St South nearby, Howard Street and its East Asian-kissed, modern European cooking is, reckons Kris Nixon, somewhat overlooked: "They're using superb local ingredients in innovative dishes with no unnecessary embellishments".
That means superb, even precious ingredients, prepared and served simply.
We found superb service, excellent ingredients, but somewhat hit-or-miss cooking.
As benign as the climate here may be, as superb as the ingredients and restaurants here may be, Australia is isolated, even in the jet age.
Sheena Glover, by email A: Bologna has all the ingredients: superb medieval and Renaissance architecture, one of the country's best food scenes and excellent theatre and opera.
The menu is imaginative, the ingredients superb, the service attentive, the décor opulent and the bill at the end of the meal staggering.
