Herb bread with a variety of dips ($10.50)
Hawaiian pizza
"Sunrise" fettuccine
Veal
Pollo Josaphine ($21.90)
Although not exactly pleasant to the eye, the food served at Mancini's are reminiscent of a good and generous, home-cooked meal. (Not that my mother cooks Italian for me, but I imagine this is what a home-cooked Italian meal would taste and feel like.
Mancini's is a first resort if I have guests and am after value-for-money, fulfilling and still tasty dishes. The food here is consistently good, as the service is friendly and efficient. Don't expect to wait more than twenty minutes for a meal after ordering, and this is not the place if you want a long, drawn out dining experience. Mancini's is in and out.
Whenever I venture out to Mancini's, the pictured herb bread is the first thing I order. It is a great starter: a herb-spiced pizza base served with very generous helpings of dips (we received hummus, tzatziki and a seafood dip). For mains, I will either resort to a seafood risotto of scallops, baby octopus, mussels and prawns, a mushroom risotto or, as I did on this occasion, pollo josaphine, which is tender chicken served with vegetables, potato and an amazing pinenut and ricotta sauce. I probably have mentioned this, but pinenuts and ricotta are two of my favourite ingredients, making this dish irresistible.
Mancini's serves pasta, risotto, pizza, salads and some veal and chicken based dishes. (The pizza trumps over that from Da Vinci's next door). Apart from this, they offer a range of gelato flavours and top notch coffee.
Most visits see me leaving with a doggy-bag, as my mum would call it.
Mancini's, 29 Lackey St, Summer Hill
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