'Pistacchissimo' pizza with crushed pistachios... so much pistachio!
Rating: 8/10
La Cava Rustica, in Trecastagni, is an interesting restaurant-pizzeria that offers both a welcoming outdoor area, complete with a well-manicured lawn, and a spacious indoor dining room. We decided to try their pistachio pizza on a mild summer evening, enjoying their beautiful garden.
Their pizza is called 'Bronte', but in the photo, you can see it enriched with an extra topping of crushed pistachios, making it the ultimate representation of pistachio. We found ourselves facing one of the most pistachio-loaded pizzas we've ever encountered, with an impressive amount of pistachio flour on top.
NB: the restaurant informed us that you must ask for a "Pistacchissimo"
The ingredients are: mozzarella, cream, pistachio pesto, bacon, spring onion, olive oil, pistachio flour.
For the record, we asked for ours without spring onion.
The pistachio pesto blends with the cream and mozzarella, creating a delicately green cream that is definitely pleasant, but the real star for any pistachio lover is undoubtedly the flour coating. The color is truly beautiful, with just the right intensity of green.
With every bite, the pistachio flour blends in your mouth, guided by the cream, coating your palate with pistachio flavor. The sweetness of the cream and mozzarella, combined with their creaminess, ties everything together. Finally, a few pieces of bacon here and there break it up with a salty note. The crust is also excellent, slightly crispy.
Undoubtedly one of the most interesting pistachio pizzas we've tried, but naturally, the pistachio, while of good quality, is mid-range. An equivalent amount of Bronte pistachio DOP would offer an incredible, perhaps even overwhelming, pistachio flavor, whereas in this case, you get "just" a pleasant pistachio taste.
A very interesting factor is the price, well under €10, which makes this pizza extremely affordable compared to the competition.
Considering the pistachio flavor provided by the generous topping, the rating is 8/10, placing it among the pizzas that impressed us the most and that we recommend you try!
It doesn't reach the top score because, as mentioned, such a quantity of pistachio could provide much more flavor if it were of a higher grade, but at the same time, it would make the pizza much more expensive, causing it to lose one of its key strengths.
To complete the picture of this lovely spot, there is very kind staff and a truly generous portion of fries.
Address:
Corso Michelangelo Buonarroti, 40
95039 Trecastagni CT
