Four different meats barbecued over hot coals on enormous skewers are carved Brazilian-style at the table. Naturally this is an all-you-can-eat deal, and extremely good value at IDR95.000 per person (minimum two people). As well as the free-flow meat, you get a salad buffet, and side serves of black beans, steamed white rice, farofa and assorted sauces. The beef sirloin and lamb and local pork loin, chicken drumsticks and pork sausages (with wild fennel seeds) are all as juicy, sumptuous and delicious as they sound and served with several sauces and condiments. Everything is presented family style, and as chef Tony said "at the end it's a bigga mess". But that's how you know it's good.
The black beans which looked doubtful at first, were actually excellent, especially when accompanied by the crispy home-made Sardinian bread. In fact most things at this restaurant seem to be home-made, right down to the pasta and the grappa. Of course being Italian there has to be a selection of pastas, pizzas, antipasti, zuppe, entrees and mains, as well as a seafood selection.
Restaurant-goers may know Antonio's other restaurant, Teras in Seminyak which has been a long time favourite. The home-made pasta that made it famous and which Tony has gone on to market and sell to other restaurants and even supermarkets make an appearance on the menu at Costa Smeralda too. With gnocchi, fettuccine, spaghetti, linguine and so on, there are about a dozen different primi piatti. They're even happy to cater for vegetarian customers.
For afters, there are ten different kinds of gelato, and everyone gets a complimentary home-made lemon-cello, or chocolate-cello (after dinner liqueurs), a new drinking option Strawberry-cello is on going process. Or you could try the 45% grappa "watch out this one fire" or for the real Italians, an extraordinary taste of home, genuine Mirto.
Costa Smeralda is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the boys from Sardinia say they'll soon have calzones, hot sandwiches and pizza by the slice for lunch takeaways. You can even have a genuine Italian light breakfast with pastry, juice and an espresso, Illy of course.
The restaurant seats about 80 has a small bar, and is conveniently situated next door to a bottle-shop with a good selection of about 165 reasonably priced wines, which you can bring into the restaurant and drink for a modest corkage of IDR25.000.
With the addition of Costa Smeralda, Jalan Kunti (home to Bale Bali, Bali Deli, The Villas, The Ahimsa and Lush Lounge) is coming into it's own as a chilled-out, mature alternative to the increasingly-traffic-jammed Jalan Oberoi (Eat Street), and the mania of Jalan Dhyannapura (Drink Street). (Wta/090908)
Source: taken from various sources
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