Mangiatorre has been on the list to try for a while now. We walk by it often enough, as it's only 350m from our apartment. Yesterday we got ourselves together and went for dinner. It started strong. Friendly welcome, nice space, calm environment.
The positive impression continued when the burrata starter arrived.
We were so pleased that we were thinking ahead how Mangiatorre might become for us the Mexico City version of
Francesca's, i.e., the Italian place right next door that we probably ordered from 1-2x/month for 12 years. (Side note, while looking up Francesca's I see it
closed due to the pandemic. Reading that article and seeing also that the Starbucks and Nookies closed makes me wonder how sad that strip of Bryn Mawr now is. Ugh.).
However the mains disappointed.
I got the spaghetti cacio e pepe. This could be me, but it felt almost more like a quatrro formaggi, with the cheese being a bit of a heavy sauce. I was expecting -- maybe wrongly -- a lighter touch with the cheese. This version from
Bon Appétit looks more like what I had in mind. Judy's linguine frutti di mare, on the other hand, was just not good. Mushy pasta. And something else was off. Couple hours later we were concerned about possible food poisoning. Luckily it didn't quite rise to that level, but it definitely did not sit well. She was cursing the restaurant and swearing we won't even go back to try the pizzas. Maybe with time we'll come back around. But there are so many options around the city, I don't see us going back there soon.
Burrata starter, two pastas, one glass primitivo, and a topo chico: $1003 MXN pre-tip
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