La Vita Spuntini Byres Road
We’ve previously had takeaways and eaten in the Bishopbriggs
La Vita which has always been received well. After a tiring weekend, we decided
to grab a takeaway, and La Vita Byres Road had a really great deal on. Three
tapas style starts, a pizza and a pasta dish all for £20.00. This was a better
offer than the one for Bishopbriggs, so how different could the same restaurant
be in quality? Let’s find out…
Mister Eats: The first starter we got was
Pollo Cardinal which was a chicken in batter, covered in a creamy mushroom
sauce. This was not what I thought it was going to be – the chicken was hard
and overcooked, the sauce could have been anything I just couldn’t taste a
thing. The only two positive things I would say is that the batter had a nice
flavour to it and the mushrooms were cooked well.
Next was Spiedini De Manzo which
was sausage wrapped in a steak. This dish had a very nice Napoli
sauce, very good flavours with a slight spice at the end; I’d really like that
sauce in pasta. The steak however had only been cooked on one side, and after
cutting into the steak you could tell that the other side hadn’t even been put
on the grill. Somehow the sausage was overcooked. Had it the sausage not been
overcooked, and the steak undercooked, I could see the potential for this dish
as I could detect the flavours coming through from the actual sauce which would
have been nice, had it not have been for the texture battle that was going on
in my mouth.
The last starter we got was the
Arancini De Manzo. This was the dish I was most looking forward to try, on
paper it sounded very appetising and appealing. When we got it, it looked like
something you would get from a freezer section of a supermarket. Very little
taste in the balls; they were cold, tasteless and unidentifiable as risotto
balls.
We got the Amore pizza which is
basically a pizza topped with pesto, mascarpone cheese, pepperoni and roasted
red peppers. We’ve previously had this pizza from the Bishopbriggs restaurant,
and we liked it so much we ordered it again expecting the same quality. We were
greatly disappointed as I have never seen a more undercooked pizza as what we
got. The whole thing bar the crust was completely raw, as I lift up a slice
there was absolutely no maintaining its shape and everything fell of the pizza.
Even when we cooked it the next day in our oven, it didn’t seem to even help it
much. This was by far the worst pizza I’ve ever had!
We chose the Mia Casa. The pasta
was the only upside to this catastrophe of a takeaway! It had a really nice,
rich, creamy sauce. The pasta was cooked well, and after the disappointment
with the chicken in the mushroom starter, I paid extra attention to this one,
and it was cooked and seasoned well. They were not shy with the broccoli which
was a plus, and cooked well.
In terms of value, the only thing
that I would have paid for is the pasta dish, so I can’t say that this was good
value for money. I don’t know what kind of chef it takes to constantly
undercook and overcook at the same time, but I’d rather have flushed my £20
down the toilet. Definitely won’t be visiting that La Vita in person!
My 5 point sum up:
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Half over cooked, half undercooked
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Very little flavour
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Cold
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Visually Unappealing
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100% won’t get a takeaway from them again
Missus Eats: As Mister Eats has
mentioned, we’ve had a La Vita before but only from the Bishopbriggs
restaurant, so we didn’t think much quality would be different, if anything I
thought it would be improved as this was from the West end of the city.
To start, we had a tapas sized
starter of Pollo Cardinal. I actually liked the sauce that it was in, I thought
the mushrooms were cooked well and the sauce was just a generic creamy sauce.
The menu describes this as having a ‘secret twist’ to the chicken.. Now the
only thing I can think that this could be is the batter on the outside, which
makes no sense because it was a bog standard batter. But all in all, it was
okay.
Next was the Spiedini De Manzo
which I found really hard to eat – the steak was tough, and the sausage was
even tougher. The sausage seemed to be overcooked and the steak overcooked, and
the combination was just not desirable at all. The sauce was mediocre, a basic
tomato Napoli sauce. I wouldn’t order it
again, another disappointment.
Finally was the Arancini De
Manzo, risotto balls. Now I’ve actually looked back and read the menu there
supposedly was a beef and pork ragu in the middle of the balls... I genuinely
thought it was just risotto, they had that little flavour. The breadcrumbs on
the outside were pleasant and added texture, the dip that was provided in them
was again, tasteless. This was the only starter I was really looking forward to
it and it just let me down.
I’ve had the Amore pizza before from
La Vita Bishopbriggs, and was one of the main reasons that I wanted to get a La
Vita. Last time, it was absolutely divine. This time, it was inedible. The
pizza base was completely raw, and even when we cooked it the next day, it just
was not nice to eat. The mascarpone wasn’t there, the red peppers were soggy,
the pesto was tasteless and the base had the consistency of PVA glue.
Last but not least, the pasta we
chose was the Mia Casa which again, I’ve had before from the Bishopbriggs
restaurant, and this was the only thing where the quality was the same. The
broccoli was lovely and crunchy, and I love the way the pasta wasn’t drowned in
the sauce, it was just lightly tossed, and the slight chilli kick afterwards
was delicious. I really enjoyed this dish and wish that I’d have just got this,
because I would have thoroughly enjoyed my meal more.
I really don’t want this
experience to put me off eating in La Vita, as it seems such a quality change
from the one in Bishopbriggs. I am really curious to go and eat in the restaurant
to compare the standards, and if I do, I will keep you updated. The meal was
completely disappointing; I could have gone out with £20.00 and cooked myself a
better meal than that. Shame on La Vita Spuntini for this horrendous quality
food.
My 5 point sum up:
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Bad quality food
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Lovely Mia Casa
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Uneven quality between restaurants
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Great offer, bad experience
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Would never order takeout from there again
Mister and Missus Eats x
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