Dreary pasta, good ice cream
Jun 10, 2010
PIZZERIA Mama Mia has a reputation for nice pizzas. It’s widely agreed that they look good, they taste good and they make the mandibles and oesophagus and everything in between feel good, so when we visited, we decided not to belabour the obvious, and try something different.
Ernest Bazanye
PIZZERIA Mama Mia has a reputation for nice pizzas. It’s widely agreed that they look good, they taste good and they make the mandibles and oesophagus and everything in between feel good, so when we visited, we decided not to belabour the obvious, and try something different.
They had a promotion on; it’s called Pasta Tuesday, where they give you a 50% discount on any pasta dish. That sounded like a plan.
All over Kampala there are places which will help you develop an idea of what Italy’s pasta dishes should be like: rich and fragrant and deeply luxurious, with all sorts of exciting variations on the basic themes.
Surely, this place will meet and even exceed my expectations because if it weren’t for the discount touted at the entrance, this dish would cost sh23,000.
With a high price come high expectations. I was sure that the pasta in Carbonara sauce for my guest and the proscuitto crème pizza I had would be legendary.
The waiter wasn’t going to give up the information without prompting, so I had to interrogate him vigorously to get a vague idea of what these “proscuitto†and “carbonara†things entailed. And even then he didn’t actually give us a useful description.
Let me give you the lay of the land as we wait for the food. Pizzeria Mama Mia is stuck to the western edge of Speke Hotel, between the hotel and the confused tangle of traffic on Speke Road.
There are attempts to make it leafy and, thus, more accommodating but the hedge is thin, so you can still see bodabodas whizzing past and Ipsums nudging past Kibinas… you are very much in town.
I decided that the place is best enjoyed in the evening when traffic is lighter and less liable to impose on your mood.
Now, here is the food.
I guess more experienced pasta connoisseurs would differ in their opinions, but to a person used to aromatic spectacles of food, Mama Mia’s pasta was, well, boring. It had none of the flamboyance I expected.
Their ice cream, however, was quite good and so here’s your verdict. Go in the evening, and you will be better pleased with the pizza.
PIZZERIA Mama Mia has a reputation for nice pizzas. It’s widely agreed that they look good, they taste good and they make the mandibles and oesophagus and everything in between feel good, so when we visited, we decided not to belabour the obvious, and try something different.
They had a promotion on; it’s called Pasta Tuesday, where they give you a 50% discount on any pasta dish. That sounded like a plan.
All over Kampala there are places which will help you develop an idea of what Italy’s pasta dishes should be like: rich and fragrant and deeply luxurious, with all sorts of exciting variations on the basic themes.
Surely, this place will meet and even exceed my expectations because if it weren’t for the discount touted at the entrance, this dish would cost sh23,000.
With a high price come high expectations. I was sure that the pasta in Carbonara sauce for my guest and the proscuitto crème pizza I had would be legendary.
The waiter wasn’t going to give up the information without prompting, so I had to interrogate him vigorously to get a vague idea of what these “proscuitto†and “carbonara†things entailed. And even then he didn’t actually give us a useful description.
Let me give you the lay of the land as we wait for the food. Pizzeria Mama Mia is stuck to the western edge of Speke Hotel, between the hotel and the confused tangle of traffic on Speke Road.
There are attempts to make it leafy and, thus, more accommodating but the hedge is thin, so you can still see bodabodas whizzing past and Ipsums nudging past Kibinas… you are very much in town.
I decided that the place is best enjoyed in the evening when traffic is lighter and less liable to impose on your mood.
Now, here is the food.
I guess more experienced pasta connoisseurs would differ in their opinions, but to a person used to aromatic spectacles of food, Mama Mia’s pasta was, well, boring. It had none of the flamboyance I expected.
Their ice cream, however, was quite good and so here’s your verdict. Go in the evening, and you will be better pleased with the pizza.