Finding a good Italian restaurant in Paris is about as easy as finding a coffee with fresh milk, or a park with grass you are actually allowed to sit on – and a recent incident involving a late night bowl of pasta carbonara (what was I thinking?) at a little Italian joint on L’île Saint-Louis a few months back threatened to turn me off Italian food for good.
That is until I found myself polishing off a bottle of Lacrima di morro d’Alba whilst devouring mouth-wateringly fresh mozzarella di bufala at restaurant/cocktail bar CERVO. Opened only 2 weeks ago by Sardinian Francesco Puddu, who previously worked at Grazie, CERVO brings simple, fresh Italian produce to a delightfully quaint little corner of the already gastronomically blessed 11th arrondissement.
With its flower embellished tables, wood clad bar, dangling light installations and the token deer antlers that seem to be adorning every hip restaurant wall these days, CERVO makes for a chic and charming little oasis from the bustling streets.
The menu is short and simple, think caprese of amazingly soft buffalo mozzarella with coeur de boeuf tomatoes and homemade pesto, cannolo of prosciutto stuffed with ricotta mousse on a bed of fresh rocket, risotto with clams and homemade pasta.
Go there for a Campari cocktail and a bite of antipasti, or like us, go there for a cocktail, some wine, some food and some more wine, and leave with your top button undone and a big smile on your face.
Emerald Bond
(author of www.agoodforking.com)
CERVO
47 rue Saint-Maur 75011
Métro: Rue Saint-Maur
Tel: +33 7 61 09 46 94
Cervo
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