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Glass Elephant Cracker
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Il Ritrovo: Not-So-Italian Restaurant on Zamalek's Blue Nile Boat
On a hot, humid and almost foggy night we found ourselves hungry as could be and ended up onSaray El Gezira Street. With a host of Nile-side boats to choose from, we were drawn by a blue light and strolled down to the Blue Nile Boat.
One of the few restaurants we hadn't tried out yet was Il Ritrovo.Blue Nileitself claims that it is a piano bar but in fact it is a pretty big restaurant. Il Ritrovo also claims to specialise in Italian cuisine.
The restaurant is located at the bow of the ship and therefore is kind of pyramid shaped. There are lots of tables; some with couches, some with chairs and others with couches built in the wall.
After ordering some drinks we took a peak at the surprising, suspicious and at times freakish menu. The first thing that caught our attention was a dish called the elephant ear (81LE). Yes, elephant ear. The description thankfully told us that it was actually veal. Other dishes on the so-called Italian menu were shawerma and hawawshi (51LE), chicken pop corn wings (47LE) and lots of dishes with offal meat. Next to that was also an extensive sushi selection. Very Italian.
We wanted to go for the endives salad with Roquefort (51LE) but unfortunately it wasn't available so instead we settled for the goat cheese salad (49LE). It was rather small and presented in some sort of a soup bowl. On top were six crackers with goat cheese covered with honey and topped with a slice of olive. The dish made a nice tasty snack but isn't exactly a starter and a bit pricy for such a small dish.
For our mains we would have loved to try the steak al' espresso (72LE) but this was also unavailable, so we took the grilled tenderloin with pepper sauce (90LE) and the grilled sea bass (85LE). The tenderloin with pepper sauce was simply delicious. The meat was a perfect medium rare as we requested and as soft and tender as could be. The pepper sauce was nice and spicy and for once the peppercorns tasted fresh.
The sea bass was a bit of a miss. The fish wasn't seasoned well giving it a very salty taste. Also we were promised accompanying lemon caper sauce on the menu but this was nowhere to be found. Since the staff was also nowhere to be found we finished the fish without sauce. The mashed potatoes on the side were nice but we had doubts about its freshness. We also took the mushroom risotto (55LE) and were glad we did after the fish debacle. The risotto could have done with some more bouillon to avoid dryness but was nevertheless very tasty and prepared with fresh mushrooms.
The music in the restaurant is provided by a self playing piano which we found rather scary as you see the piano keys going up and down by themselves. Despite this, we had generous glasses of Grand Marquis wine (42LE) and spicy Virgin Mary's (25LE) which was a nice way to top off a fairly average evening.
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