As part of our incredible stay at Crown Perth we were treated to a meal at their Italian restaurant, Modo Mio. I have ridiculously high standards when it comes to Italian food, blame it on a mix of Italian blood and coming from a family who really love their food, so was excited to see what they had to offer...
We were greeted at the door and led through the restaurant to our table where we were given our menus. In true girl style I opened the cocktail list first and spent far too long deciding what I wanted, I finally decided on a Cherry blossom cocktail, a mixture of absolut citron, creme de cassis, cherry liquer, maraschino syrip and lime. It was quite honestly one of the best cocktails I've ever tried. Dan on the other hand went for a corona (later washed down with some scotch...cue anchorman jokes).
For our starters we shared some garlic bread (I was saving myself for the sweet) and Dan had Carpaccio with Cipriano sauce, rucola salad and parmesan cheese.
It took a long time to choose what we wanted for our mains, but with some guidance from the wait staff Dan selected the Pancetta wrapped rabbit porchetta with foie gras and herbs, polenta, pork rillettes and cacciatore sauce. The presentation was absolutely incredible and he said the taste was divine.
I was pleasantly surprised by the number of vegetarian friendly options on the menu, I chose the Mushroom rissoto with asiago cheese, smoked butter and truffle oil and it was incredible, so so rich and full of flavour.
I could quite easily have said 'one of everything' when it came to dessert, but decided to be less gluttonous and ordered Panna cotta with balsamic and basil strawberries, lemon curd and shortcrust crumble and Chocolate mousse, hazelnut meringue, kahlua cream and salted caramel ice cream for the pair of us to share.
Both of the dessert were absolutely out of this world, such beautiful textures and combinations of flavours. I need to give a special mention to the salted caramel ice cream, which was hands down the best salted caramel ice cream I've had in Australia.
The whole experience at Modo Mio was absolutely divine, I thoroughly enjoyed their modern twists on more classic Italian dishes, the service was impeccable and the atmosphere was great also. Modo Mio is the perfect place for a fancy date night, birthday or celebration and we both can't wait to return.
What's your favourite Italian dish? Have you eaten at Crown Perth before?
xo
psst, make sure you read my blog post about the rest of our stay at Crown Perth