Michaelangelo's Italian Kitchen

Hello!

This time around, we took a look at Michaelangelo's Italian Kitchen in Sunway Pyramid. The first impression is quite good; friendly waitresses, soothing music, clean environment. The bricks and wood decor also gives a warm and homely feel.

We sat in one of the booths as you can see in the picture. I find it nice that their booths can fit six people instead of the usual four. It was just nice for our party :D. Since we went off-peak hours, it was quiet. This plus the soothing music made it a great environment for a meal and to catch up with friends.

We ordered 3 sets which was shared by 5 people. Each set consists of an appetizer, a main course and a drink (soft drink). And we can add dessert for RM1.20. Each set is around RM20 to RM30. Since I don't take soft drinks, I ordered an orange juice (picture above). It looks weird... like they added milk and blended it. The texture is rather bubbly and not so much of liquid... not the fresh orange juice I had in mind.

Next are the appetizers. We had mushroom soup, minestrone soup and garlic bread. The mushroom soup is not the typical cream of mushroom but it has less body and more texture to it. It is not smooth but rather lumpy. Minestrone soup is nothing out of ordinary but the garlic bread is nice... if it had more garlic... it tastes like toast butter bread... crunchy though :)

Now for the main courses... we had seafood pizza, chicken something and seafood baked rice.

The pizza was definitely something different from common pizza places. It contains real seafood such as prawn, calamari and muscles... crab stick is so not seafood. The pastry is thin and crunchy, the cheese is just in the right amount, enough to dangle when you pull a slice of pizza out but not too much till you get sick of cheese....It also seems more natural to me... I have gotten weary over the cheese stuffed pizzas, cheese dips and what-nots from pizza hut... just find them all too artificial. Overall it is a nice dish.

Next the the chicken something :). This dish came with a drumstick with spaghetti. The chicken itself seemed fresh. The sauce is something different, I am not too sure how to describe it... I guess you have to go try it yourself. But the spaghetti was not done to al dante. It was still rather hard.

Our third main was seafood baked cheese rice. The seafood is a combination of squid, oyster, and prawn. The appearance is lovely, two oysters on each end of the dish, big pieces of squid and prawns... but deceiving. The squid was a bit on the chewy side and the oyster was tasteless... I did not eat the prawn so no comment there. Again the rice was not cooked properly. It was still hard.

Finally we had dessert...Crème brûlée (french for burnt cream). This is also my first time eating this but I liked it... liked it enough to try making it, after all I've already got the ramekins (the bowl that holds the Crème brûlée) at home. It has a sweet hard caramel top, smooth cold custard underneath. Their version is plain vanilla. Perhaps we can enhance the flavor with a bit of chocolate?

In a nutshell, Michaelangelo's Italian Kitchen has excellent environment and good food presentation but needs to improve on their food in terms of taste.

Cheers,

Valerie