I had raved about Kasa Rosa many times; my little well-kept secret restaurant (seeing that majority of my readers are from Australia,Malaysia & HK!).My fav restaurant in Leeds;and obviously where I want to be during my birthday. We had been there 2 weeks earlier for a quick pasta,where lobster was one of the daily specials.I was hoping it would be on again,but unfortunately it was all out by then. Shame…but I also knew that nothing on their menu will dissapoint my tastebuds.

Well,maybe the potato dishes..they don’t seem to excel in anything potatoey.

Decor is very low key and unpretentious,with wooden furniture and selected mix of paintings peppered around the restaurant.At 6.20pm, the restaurant was still fairly empty. By the time we left at 7.30,it was completely full. Yes,I eat fast.

bacon’s fuzzy olive starter. Yah,it was the olive that was fuzzy,not my manual focusing.heh.Very simple but well marinaded,none of that ‘dry’ feeling you get whilst chewing on olives sometimes.

The deep-fried machengo cheese makes an appearance again.I love deepfried cheese, deepfried ice cream, deep fried mars bar…and KFC too.

And now,time for the main course. Seeing that I had lost all hope with the dissapearance of ‘lobster’ from the specials board, I opted for the king prawn& scallop over safforn rice. Again, like most of their dishes, mildly yet equisitely flavoured with fresh herbs, seafood stock and loads of tomatoey goodness,the tomato-white wine sauce was an absolute hit. Scallops as big as a ping pong ball impressed me as well, and the sinfully delicious fresh prawns was so gently flavoured I could devour about 2 more servings.

Bacon’s Americano pizza,with spicy chorizo sausage slices and peppers. Love the crust..it was thin you are unable to pick a slice up…needing to fold it into half first.We’ve always wanted to try their pizzas out,its the lovely smell of pizzas baking wafting from the kitchen all the time.

This was probably the first time we were so stuffed we had to skip desserts – their tiramisu is legendary. Sponge completely soaked with coffee liquor,the mascarpone cheese layering that was heavenly.

But another day.

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