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Venue67 Halkett Place, St Helier, tel. +44 1534 734602
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Foodfrom 04.05 to 04.10.2010La Capannina, St Helier
RESTAURANT REVIEW. There was once a time when food was served by waiters and not fussily arranged on your plate by young aspiring chefs after wiping the sweat from the faces with the backs of their hands.
Restaurants emphasised good food, professionally served and overseen by a supremely competent restaurant manager; the ego of the chef was not a factor.
This brings me, seamlessly, to La Capannina in Halkett Place. Opened in 1966, it remains a beacon for those who appreciate good food professionally served. Tino Rossi, the proprietor all these years, makes sure a good value set price menu is always on offer to offset the choice offered to those whose budgets far exceed the normal.
Thus it is that the lunch menu at £17.50, the four course dinner menu at £25 and the superb value Pasta menu at £8.50 on Saturday lunchtimes only remain the example of what good catering can and should be: honest food, well cooked and well served by trained waiters not plate porters.
It doesn’t fit the current middle-class foodie obsession with style over content, but that is as it should be.
The pasta lunch on Saturday, with a glass of wine costs less than in any high street pizza and pasta chain, and what’s more, the pasta is all home made.
The evening menu for £27 offers asparagus with hollandaise sauce, spaghetti with olive oil, garlic and chilli, roast saddle of lamb carved next to the table and a choice from the dessert trolley. With wine the meal for two came in at under £45 per head.
From a restaurant that offers as much at La Capannina, that is good value and one of the reasons it has lasted so long.
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