[Dec. 2024] It was New Year’s Eve while staying in Sorrento in southern Italy.
We headed to a restaurant called Donna Sofia, which we had booked in advance.
I dressed up a little, but this time I wasn’t disappointed like I was on Christmas Eve, and the restaurant had a great atmosphere that was well worth it.
Inside the restaurant, you can see photos of Sophia Loren hanging here and there.
Maybe the owner is a fan.
Here, we shared fried prawn for a starter.
With pink mayonnaise sauce.
It said “Panko” on the menu, so I think it was a little bit Japanese.
The heads were removed, but the tails were fried together, and to me, that part tasted the best.
For the main course, we both had lobster Paccheri.
I had been wanting to eat it for a long time.
In fact, I had it in the summer in Rapallo, a seaside town in Liguria, but I was not satisfied because it somehow lacked flavour.
Here, it was absolutely delicious.
It was only half a lobster, but it was quite filling.
It wasn’t cheap, though, at €42 per plate.
For dessert, I had lemon cake, a local specialty.
It’s a sponge cake with plenty of lemon cream on the outside, and I liked it, but I was already full at this point, so I left some of it.
My husband had tiramisu.
Interestingly, my husband’s tiramisu was huge, but he said that the tiramisu served to the table next to him was half the size.
Is it simply a matter of supply and demand, or do they decide the amount based on the person?
It’s a mystery.
Including a bottle of white wine from the region, the bill came to €161.
By the way, the couple sitting next to us were British, and it seemed that the woman had been secretly smoking at her table.
An older woman in the Italian group across from them had noticed and pointed it out.
My husband said that one of the group members said, “That must be hallucination,” and the old lady was angry.
The British woman realised this and ran outside to smoke a cigarette.
It was an astonishing story.
This couple seemed to have only recently met, and the man ordered the same lobster as us, saying twice, “I know what my wife wants to eat.”
Somehow, I thought this couple probably won’t last.
Sometimes, you hear other people talking at a restaurant and make inferences, don’t you.
