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My girlfriend and I go to Kinton Ramen quite a bit when we're in the mood for ramen and we often see this restaurant, which is literally right across the street from the ramen place. Located in Mississauga, it's right off of Burnamthorpe Road W and Confederation Parkway. I'd say this is sort of like a downtown for Mississauga, especially since parking is paid around here.
We wanted to try this place out, since we love Italian food and tried a place similar out in Port Credit, we we decided to hit this place up!
Alioli Restoranté is a fine dining Italian restaurant, which has their own private parking spaces. Masks are mandatory and worn by all servers, all the time. You can remove your mask when sat down.
The patio is set up with wind resistant measures and a bunch of heaters inside for the winter. (Thankfully today was a warm day, so no need for the heaters) The inside of the restaurant has a great wine collection on their wine wall, temperature checks upon arrival, contact tracing.
The menu is available on your own phone, all you have to do is scan a QR code to get it on your phone. Not a bad selection of food, lots of recommendations and very polite staff.
Since this was our first time here, we didn't know what was good but what's to come will definitely surprise you!
We ordered an app to share, just in case it wasn't good - and ordered the Calimari Alla Griglia which consists of grilled squid, red onion, capers, diced tomatoes and olive tapenade. It honestly tasted amazing but for $19, I guess it should be, right?
I had the Rigatoni Rustica, rigatoni with rosemary marinated beef tenderloin strips, mushrooms, spinach, cream sauce topped with toasted walnuts. Tina had the Gnocchi with shrimp, diced tomatoes, green onion and rose sauce (Gnocchi Con Gamberi).
My pasta tasted amazing, the sauce was great, beef was cooked well, pasta nice and hot, eat it with the spinach per bite altogether and it's to die for. Towards the end, I asked for a little more fresh ground pepper and cheese, the server did sprinkle too much of the cheese onto the dish, but it was towards me finishing the dish, so I didn't mind.
The gnocchi with shrimp had big fresh pieces of shrimp, which tasted great. The gnocchi tasted amazing too but we found the sauce a little too rich for our liking.
Service was great. The entire patio was packed up, and regulars do come by, so we're impressed.
We also ordered a Bellini but unfortunately something flew in it and they replaced it for us.
Great service, great food, a little pricey but worth it!.
WE WILL BE BACK :)
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