Tropea, Harborne, Birmingham: ‘A forward-thinking take on the Italian trattoria’ – restaurant review | Italian food and drink

NO one can make mistakes in the southwest of Birmingham for Calbreyan coast. In what Phenian Plan that indicates the common denominators between the two, there will be very little in this interfering section in the middle. Or, more precisely, there may be just one word: Tropea.

This restaurant in Harborne, which was named after the Italian resort Sunkissed, has made a quiet name for itself over the past few years with Salizà Amaretto Sours and Provolone Arancini to taste sunset on a charming balcony. Yes, this private balcony may ignore this traffic on the Lordswood Road, but we hope that some edges are unclear after a round of Bombinos.

in His notesRichard E Grant writes about the human need to find a “pocket of happiness” every day – a phrase that comes to mind when Tropea enters late last month. Suddenly, you are out of all cold and depression, and in a group of foods that you enjoy challenging with gossip in Ragu TagliaTelle and BlackBerry Daiquiris. “We will stay on only two paintings,” Charles said.

Tropya is not one of those high -street Italian restaurants with red films chairs, Spag Roberto Baggio in the bathroom. But then, not one of these “other Italians”, where she gets a portion of Tagliolini in a pale sauce, in a pale room, while listening to SADE covers played on Panpipes. Instead, Tropya is a front thinking on Italian Tratoria. Chef Cassia Petkovska She trained at the University of Birmingham University, along with her commercial partner now, Ben Robinson Yong, and they have created together a welcoming place that tilted greatly on modern Birmingham, complete with an elegant interface and sea blue, and inside bronze, warm, warm, warm, warm, warm, warm, and warm, warm, warm, warm, Warm sunset oranges and thirty soft lighting. Cold, but not excessively cold. This is the restaurant where mothers and adventurous parents can treat their student children on a large £ 20 panel of Gnocchi with Gorgonzola Dolce and Confit Red Ponion, or where mixed groups can catch half on grilled octopus and red home; There is Parmigiana Aubergina as well, and Tiramisu for sweets if you want something more recognized.

But Tropya is not in the least cooling of “large fish”. The employees are fuckingly friendly, which helped convert our original request to some of the crunchy crunchy, rasino and a small part of the Tajolinini into a full lunch for three hours. Our plans changed quickly after the appearance of large walnut squash and Sage Arancino: It was a golden vision, loaded with grated grated and installed on its place with a pool of coconut sauce. Crime, well -tested, wonderful.

It is likely that part of the carrixio beef is probably severely broken meat, which did not need a thick, mayonnaise sauce through it, but all of them devoured. We went back equally with pasta at home. Do not go a tropia in his choice of pasta – there were only four offered, and two of Gnocchi and Fregola – but the quality, not the quantity, is important here. The fresh, Tajliolini, with local black winter truffles, was a joy, and it came in a meaningful Parmesan sauce. Soft pillows manually avoided Gnocchi in Georgonzola as one broadcaster by adding sweet red onion and hazelnut scattering. Piątkowska and her team runs a very good kitchen with a delightful menu, and Harborne is very lucky for their presence.

From pasta, we followed, with a recognition of some gaps in the service, to a complete grilled part, from the pear tree and in the red wine sauce, it is presented to Parmesan polynta with butter chaantelles. However, the hero’s dish was in the lunch three bronze panels, from Dilika knocked with whipped ricotta, which was exactly How to celebrate pumpkin. I was mistaken to send any of them to the kitchen, so I took the last piece to the house in a box and cut it on the salad for a snack in the evening.

The total mood that was a little lunch was a little bit, but I told me that more cocktails were drunk and that disco music had led to an evening. If this is not your thing, try lunch – try Tiramisu while you are also around it, because it is a great cut, generous, bou, and ease enough for two people.

Please do not be a fool and vaporize homemade hemp. Oh, I know what this is, you will think – it is often disappointment. But here they are wonderful, clear, fried tubes stuffed with cream, salted caramel and chocolate sauce, which are degenerated. Yes, people may say that Birmingham lacks a little La Dolce Vita, but in Harborne there is a place where the imaginary sun rises brighter.

• Tropea 27-33 Lordswood Road, Harborne, BirMingham B17, 0121-427 9777. From about 40 pounds, he saw his head, as well as drinks and service