Restaurant Rugosa was opened in January 2018 in Lauttasaari in one of the recently completed apartment buildings. The best part of Rugosa is that it takes only 10 minutes to walk there as it is located on the home island.
Specialities are charcoal grill and huge aquarium, which is only for viewing. Fishes are not used for cooking although there are fish dishes on a la carte list. Restaurant is open every day from noon until evening, but only weekends until 23.00.
Dinner starts with home made pita bread with hummus and tsatziki. Really delicious and can actually replace the starter as there is plenty of it.
Only vegan dish for starter is Salad a la Rugosa Naturel. For another starter ordered Blue cheese and Garlic Snails.
Salad was basic and fresh.
Snails were tasty, combination of cheese and butter with herbs made the dish excellent although there was nothing extraordinary. And there should not be as this is traditional starter. More pita bread which unfortunately is not the best bread to wipe hollows clean as it a bit hard.
For main courses ordered Falafels a la Rugosa and Charcoal grilled fillet steak.
Vegan option was nicely presented but falafels itselves were a bit dry. Although menu says that there is also vegan mayo option, restaurant had not yet made that.
Steak was tender as it should be. Waitress forgot to ask how it should be prepared; it was medium minus. Would have anyway liked medium plus ripeness. Mushroom sauce and potato cake supplemented meat. This ensamble made dish quite heavy, maybe grilled roots have been better choice.
For wine ordered house wine Portuguese AdegaMãe Pinta Negra Tinto 2016. Excellent quality/price ratio and definately best part of dinner.
Dining room is spacious but as Rugosa seems to be quite popular, best to make table reservation at least on Friday and Saturday evenings.
There is lots of potential to be the number one restaurant in Lauttasaari. Casa Mare and Blue Peter face now real competition which hopefully encourages them to further develop their businesses.
Portions look spectacular and they are big. Some fine tuning and food grade raises easily.
We did not plan to order aperitives but as nobody asked if we wanted, we sticked to wine.
Ragusa deserves 4 points for overall grade because of location. But as mentioned earlier restaurant have all odds to get higher.
REVIEW: FOOD 3,5/5 – SERVICE 3,5/5 – OVERALL GRADE 4/5
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