IL Vicolo Cafe, Galway
Il Vicolo Cafe is a lovely Italian cafe and wine bar located on the corner of St. Augustine Street and Buttermilk Walk in Galway. I visited for lunch on a busy Saturday of a bank holiday weekend. The cafe is very small and we had to wait a few minutes for a table – but it turned out to be well worth the wait. The cafe serves breakfast, lunch and dinner but you can also pop in for coffees and cake or a glass of wine. The lunchtime fare consists of soups, two pasta specials and a selection of paninis, bruschettas and salads. There were two of us for lunch and we ordered the two specials. My dish consisted of penne with spicy sausage, pancetta and chard in a cream sauce. It was incredible – cooked to perfection and definitely one of the very finest pasta dishes I have ever tasted and well worth its E9.50 price tag. The second special was gnocchi with a quattro formaggi sauce and pesto and was also pronounced very …