Published by Swiss James on 13 Aug 2009
Published by Swiss James on 01 Jul 2009
Contacts #2: Da Marco
# 2 In a series of the business cards in my wallet.
Who? Da Marco
What? Italian Restaurant
Where? Inside a block of apartments, Jiangsu Lu (one stop from Jing-An)
Metropark Service Apartments
103 Dong Zhu An Bang Lu, Changning
东诸安浜路103号京华酒店公寓内(镇宁路江苏路间)
tel: 021 62104495
Why? The pizza here- blue cheese and sausage flavour, is great. Normally I cannot be swayed from the pizza topping that Jesus would choose (Tuna & Mushroom) but I make an exception here.
All of the other stuff I’ve eaten- seafood platters, unusual salads, umm little breadsticks- were solid tasty Italian food too. The wine is totally reasonably priced, and two people can eat there for 300RMB, which is more than you can say for most good western restaurants in town.
The deserts are crap, but they’re Italians so what can you do?
And…If you arrive early with a booking and your table isn’t ready, they gave you a glass of Prosecco at the bar.
If you turn up without a booking and there are no tables ready, they give you a glass of Prosecco and a stern telling off.
Published by Swiss James on 24 Jun 2009
Contacts #1: Xinjiang Restaurant
#1 In a series of the business cards in my wallet.
Who? “JinSaDao”
What? A Xinjiang Restaurant
Where? A shopping mall in XuJiaHui.
No.218 2/F Tengfei Building
333 Tian Yao Qiao Lu
tel: 021-64260901
天钥桥路333号腾飞大厦2楼218
Why? Good food, nice surrondings, “traditional” dancing until 8:30pm. Pretty cheap (as Xinjiang food generally is). Close to Harleys and Blue Frog for after-dinner tipples.
And…once, right, when I was there, a guy in the corner table was sick on the floor for approximately 40-45 minutes.
His friends were getting up, walking around the restaurant and coming back to see if he was still going.
