Cacio e Pepe
Three ingredients, nowhere to hide. The test dish for any new cook here.
AED 68
Nine shapes, made daily on the table by the window. A short wine list, a long lunch, and absolutely no truffle oil.
Bianca is a family restaurant that does about eleven dishes well rather than forty adequately. The pasta is rolled every morning at the window table, which is also where the staff eat at four.
Three ingredients, nowhere to hide. The test dish for any new cook here.
Whatever the deli sent, cut to order. Enough for three as a start.
Beef braised for six hours on Fridays. When it is gone, it is gone.
Made in one tray each morning. Roughly twenty portions, no more.
“Took my mother, who is Italian and difficult about this. She asked for the cook.”
“Half portions for kids at half price. Every restaurant should do this and almost none do.”
“Fourteen wines and the waiter knew all of them properly. Better than a list of two hundred.”
Weekday lunch usually has room for walk-ins. Friday and Saturday dinner books out about a week ahead.