La Cala by Mia - Thao Dien

 Italian cold cuts served with home-made “Grissini” and eggplant pickle  

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 Italian cheeses served with home-made “Grissini” and honey 

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Italian cold cuts and cheeses served with home-made “Grissini” and eggplant pickle 

Plain pizza dough, flavored with extra virgin olive oil and rosemary baked on request

The traditional soup made of over fourteen fresh vegetables from the garden 

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 Sicilian fried rice balls stuffed in three variants (beef ragu, ham & cheese, eggplant & cheese) 

Four pieces of toasted home-made bread topped with olive oil and seasonal vegetables 

Baby burrata (50 gr) served on grilled zucchini, eggplant & capsicum 

Tiny fresh anchovies floured and fried

Signature tartare of yellow fin tuna served with sweet mango

Wild-Caught golden snapper fillet carpaccio style

Tomato, lettuce, rockets, onion, olives, capers dressed in extra virgin olive oil and vinegar

Cherry tomatoes, olives, capers, red onion, celery, salty anchovies, oregano served over crispy bread, dressed in extra virgin olive oil and topped with burrata cheese (50gr) 

Home-made canned yellowfin tuna, Da Lat cherry tomatoes, capers, red onion, celery, oregano, olives dressed in extra virgin olive oil

Rocket salad, tomato, seasoned pork loin salami topped with shaved parmesan cheese 

Spaghetti pasta in home made tomato sauce

Spaghetti pasta in home made  tomato sauce topped with baby burrata ( 50gr )

Home-made ravioli stuffed with ricotta and spinach served in tomato sauce 

Home-made small gnocchi served in a sauce of sautéed clam, shrimp from Nha Trang Sea and Da Lat cherry tomato in extra virgin olive oil

Linguine pasta in a sauce of sautéed clam in garlic, olive oil, white wine, and a juice of freshly

squeezed cherry tomatoes, flavoured with basil and served with a pesto of dry tomato

Mezze Maniche Pasta served with 3 hours slow-cooked Tuna ragu with herbs

Mezze Maniche Pasta served with wild caught  Grouper, sun-dried tomatoes, bread crumbs & lemon zeast

Spaghetti pasta, pasteurized egg yolk, Parmiggiano, Pecorino cheese, Italian Guanciale (dryaged pork jowl) and pepper. The original Italian carbonara with NO CREAM.

Oven-baked pasta made of fresh pasta sheets, Bolognese sauce, mozzarella, béchamel

Hand-made fettuccine served with traditional slow cooked ragù of Australian lamb as per grandma’s recipe

Oven-baked eggplant pie layered with tomato sauce, mozzarella and parmesan cheese 

Fried calamari served on a white beans’ cream along with home-made crunchy potato chips

Baby octopus stewed in tomato sauce with olives & capers

Traditional Italian light stew of mixed fishes and seafood, with monkfish, cod, cuttlefish, clam, and shrimps in home-made tomato sauce and red bell pepper and parsley. 

A fillet of wild-caught John Dory fish served with sautéed escarole, tomatoes confit and grilled eggplant cream.

Mixed fried fish platter with Baby mullet, calamari, shrimp, and anchovies. 

Premium octopus in a salad of olives, capers, carrots, potatoes, parsley, extra virgin olive oil and lemon

Home-made pork sausage served with roasted capsicum and sautéed broccolini

50gr of fresh burrata cheese 

Sautéed Da Lat broccolini with garlic and chilly

Home-made thin sliced potato chips deep-fried and salted

Assorted Mediterranean Olives

Home-made eggplant pickle, sour and salted as per nonna Titina’s recipe 

Tomato sauce, garlic, anchovies, capers, olives and oregano

Tomato sauce, Italian mozzarella, basil

Tomato sauce, Italian mozzarella, anchovies, capers, black olives

Tomato sauce, Italian mozzarella, salami, chili pepper

Tomato sauce, Italian mozzarella, grilled zucchini, eggplant, bell pepper 

Tomato sauce, Italian mozzarella, ham, mushrooms 

Tomato sauce, Italian mozzarella, Home-made canned tuna caught in Nha Trang Sea, onion 

Tomato sauce, Italian mozzarella, home-made sausage, mushrooms

Tomato sauce, Italian mozzarella, ham, mushrooms, olives, artichoke 

Tomato sauce, Italian mozzarella, Prosciutto di Parma, rocket

Tomato sauce, 125g bufala mozzarella, extra virgin olive oil, basil, Da Lat cherry tomatoes

Italian mozzarella, ham

Italian mozzarella, home-made sausage, broccolini

Four cheese pizza with provola, pecorino, parmigiano and gorgonzola

Provola cheese, Italian mozzarella, mortadella

Italian mozzarella, shrimp, cuttlefish, Da Lat cherry tomatoes, parsley

 Provola cheese, Italian mozzarella, nduja spicy Italian sausage & rocket 

Tomato sauce, Italian mozzarella, ham, mushrooms 

The traditional Italian dessert made of Savoyard biscuits dipped in coffee, layered with mascarpone cream and finished in cocoa powder.

Our pannacotta is topped with a homemade passion fruit gelatine cream to create a rather interesting sweet and sour contrast.

A scoop of vanilla gelato served along with an Italian Espresso.