Comments on: Contacts #2: Da Marco

By: WoAi

WoAi — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:05:50 +0000

Against your will? You need better will power! Glad you didn’t think it was entirely bad.

By: balticninja

balticninja — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:22:57 +0000

shamelessly sold out here my man…what did you get for this post? free ham cubes and breadsticks at the bar?

By: 小杜

小杜 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:31:39 +0000

Had dinner at DaMarco’s (against my will) last night.

Was actually decent for once, although the service was still hopelessly bad as usual.
Recommend the Octopus Salad – very good!

By: WoAi

WoAi — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:08:15 +0000

Lukas – You mean like this: jalapeño?

By: Lukas

Lukas — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:29:19 +0000

Jalapeno (imagine the n with wave on top) Pizza from New York Style Pizza. Hands down.

By: WoAi

WoAi — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:11:40 +0000

Lawrence – Your observation is only partially correct. The Italian chefs usually work in a hotel for a year, find a Chinese girl 20 years younger than themselves to marry, then open their own restaurant with the extended wife’s family all employed in the new venture.

I’m never calling you again to fix my computer after what you said about Da Marco. Although actually I might need help setting up the wireless in my new apartment. Then I’ll stop calling you!

By: Dingle

Dingle — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:01:04 +0000

One up for Da Marco’s here, I thought the food there was good and a great atmosphere in the restaurant.

I’ve been to That’s Amore and thought the food was crap, I swore never to go again. Mind you, not the fairest of nights to judge, I went on valentines night and was forced to order their set menu (although half the restaurant was ordering from the normal menu).

By: ISpyShanghai » Worst pizza ever

ISpyShanghai » Worst pizza ever — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:22 +0000

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By: Swiss James

Swiss James — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:52:52 +0000

I’m moderately interested!

Maybe my bar on Italian food is set too low, I refuse to pay anything like top dollar for pasta and pizza, and have never really been to Italy (one overnight stay in Turin doesn’t count as all I did was watch football, get drunk, and miss my train back to Switzerland).

The pizza at Da Marco’s is great and the wine list seems good to me (i.e cheap, and none of it makes you cough), free bread…yeah maybe I’m not really a high dining type.

By: 小杜

小杜 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:19:53 +0000

Yeah yeah, Mr Swiss hulk go smash smash.

Seriously though, I’ve never ever been happy at DeMarco’s food wise, and still fail to see what the big fuss is/was about the place.
My experiences with DeMarco’s have always been bad, even from first visits >10 years ago (hmm, probably 14-15years, but I don’t want to show my age).

Thats Amore is another decent place – I’ve had *very* good food there.
However, I was with the owner, and the chef was cooking for us, and the Italian restaurant “mafia”, so I’d expect it to be better than average!
Lots of wine, and discussions about how to bring in a Vespa.

I met an new ‘in town’ Italian chef over at my office the other day for some Computer support, he’s working at one of the hotels here. Usually they tend to quit and open their own restaurants here after a while, so will be interesting to see if he does the same.
Have to persuade him to feed me one day. (Can’t remember which hotel offhand, will update if people are moderately interested).