My recent purchase over Groupon has brought me back to this lovely Italian restaurant for my second visit, where the first visit was 3 years ago. Please visit here for my first post on Favola.
Favola literally means fable in Italian, it is located at Level 8 of 5-Star Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur Hotel.
The whimsical dining environment is decorated with with Renaissance architectural features such as masks, high ceilings and several chandeliers hanging across the hall.
The 3-course gourmet Italian meal is priced at RM69 per person instead of RM125.30. Please click here for the details of the deal I purchased over Groupon.
Antipasti (appetizer), literally means "before meal", can be anything from bread to cheese and butter. In this case, 3 types of breads are freshly served hot from the oven with 3 types of sauce for dipping at your own liking. Although the size of the bread had shrunken to half as compared to my previous visit, but still adequate for 2-persons sharing.
Four choices are available for selection, in which two of them are salads. Rucola e salsiccia anatra (RM45) was chosen, which consists of Arugula, sliced pear, gorgonzola cheese, duck sausage and toasted walnut. For a non-salad palater, this would be the best salad I've indulged. The salad dressing and cheese make the Arugula tasted so rich and aromatic.
The other two choices left on the appetizer menu are soups. Instead of the traditional Minestrone, Zuppa di fungi calabrese (RM35), which consists of assorted mushrooms cooked in milk with rustic garlic bread and Swiss cheese. As expected, the fresh mushroom soup tasted far superior which makes the usual canned soup paled into insignificance in comparison.
Similar to appetizer, 4 choices of Secondi (literally means second course) also are up for selection, in which pizzas and pastas equally make up the numbers. What would Italian cuisine become without these two?!
The signature Favola Pizza (RM40) is an easy choice obviously. The Italian pizza is topped with fresh slices of tomato, fresh mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese, basil pesto and sizzled with olive oil. Although the ingredients are relatively simple, the pizza's taste and aroma is world's apart from the ordinary franchises' pizzas. The combination of cheeses which melt in your mouth deserves the extra credits too!
As for the pasta, Gamberetti ai Pinoli (RM45) was chosen instead of the Bolognese Beef, literally it means shrimps and pine nuts.
The pasta is stir-fried with decent numbers of prawns, chilli, garlic, parsley, pine nuts and mushrooms in extra virgin olive oil.
As for Dolci (dessert), we were given choices of two. The first dessert is Double espresso tart with fresh Chantilly cream (RM20). The bitterness from the tart is expected as it is made from double espresso, but the overall flavour is balanced by the sweetness of crème Chantilly, which is a kind of sweetened whip cream.
The other dessert would be 2 scoops of Italian gelato (RM16), chocolate and vanilla flavours, which are both smooth and creamy, typical of any gelato. As a conclusion, my second visit to Favola is worth the price I pay over Groupon for such a fine dining experience over the Italian restaurant. Longing for a third visit, third time's a charm, perhaps?!
Favola
Address: Level 8, Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur Hotel,
No. 2, Jalan Stesen Sentral, 50470 Kuala Lumpur.
Phone: 03-2263 7434 (Call 9am – 6pm daily)
Operating hours: 12pm – 2.30pm / 6.30pm – 10.30pm daily
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