Seafood aglio olio spaghetti ($18.80++)!
Sunday Italian — seafood aglio olio spaghetti $18.80. Sit-down Italian restaurant pasta.
Italian dinner: seafood aglio olio spaghetti, $18.80++. 🍝😋
Aglio e olio (“garlic and oil”) is the most stripped-back of Italian pastas, no cream, no tomato, just spaghetti tossed in good olive oil with sliced garlic and a pinch of chilli flakes. Its simplicity is exactly the appeal: there’s nowhere to hide, so it lives or dies on technique. Done right, the garlic is golden (never burnt and bitter), the oil emulsified with a splash of starchy pasta water into a light, glossy sauce, and the noodles al dente.
The seafood version loads it up with prawns, clams and squid, and that’s where this plate shone: the briny sweetness of fresh shellfish plays beautifully against the garlicky, gently spicy oil, with the seafood juices enriching the sauce. The prawns were plump and the squid tender (no rubberiness), and a squeeze of lemon brightened the whole thing.
It’s a clean, garlicky, satisfying plate that lets the seafood do the talking. At $18.80++ it sits at the everyday mid-tier for a sit-down Italian, and felt fair for the generous seafood.
Overall: 4.6 / 5. 😋👍🏼 A glossy, garlicky aglio olio lifted by sweet, fresh seafood, simple done well. Would re-order.
