Degò

After a wonderful evening at Curzon Soho, watching the UK premiere of Thérèse Desqueyroux including a Q&A with Audrey Tautou as part of their 'Rendez-Vous With French Cinema', I had a delicious meal at Degò, an Italian restaurant and winebar a matter of minutes from the super-busy Oxford Circus.

The menu was full of traditional dishes and flavours from Italy. I started off with aubergine parmigiana - this version was partially de-constructed  with a beautifully sweet tomato sauce accompanying crispy aubergine interleaved with gooey mozzarella. It was certainly tasty, although a little too oily.

I was very happy with the house-made fettuccine for my mains. The pasta was perfect, just al dente, and with creamy fresh burrata and confit tomatoes was a pleasure to eat. It's a wonderfully simple combo, so I think I'll be trying to emulate it at home!

I finished with some great house-made gelato: peach, raspberry and pear - a refreshing end to a highly enjoyable meal.

Scrumptious Sacla Sauce

I just tried a new sauce by Sacla on some gnocchi with crispy sage. The sauce is part of Sacla's new range by Lawrence Dallaglio and is a creamy blend of tomatoes, mozzarella and basil. It had a perfect texture to accompany the pasta and a piquant umami flavour, which probably came from the tomatoes.

http://www.dallagliobysacla.co.uk/