“An excuse to eat cream…” one of the better, laugh inducing lines I have seen put on a menu to describe a meal and I could not have agreed more with Lago Ristorante. When I first saw the fettuccine alfredo on the menu, I was drawn to it because you had the opportunity to add different type of seafood and meats to the dish for an additional cost. This is the perfect way to enhance any ordinary, run of the mill dish found on any Italian menu. I chose to add lobster to my alfredo (for an additional $6) putting the total cost of the dish to only $14 for a “small” portion.
When the dish arrived, I found that it was anything but “small.” The plate was mounded with pasta and delicious deposits of lobster tucked in the creamy sauce. Lobster, like most other seafood, can be a tricky item to cook just right…if you under cook seafood, it can be unsafe to eat, and if you over cook it, you might as well be chewing on a rubber tire. In this case, however, the lobster was cooked perfectly. It was a nice texture difference to the creamy and delicious alfredo sauce and the al dente fettuccini that it was paired with. There was a small addition of crushed red pepper flake to give the dish a little extra kick without making the heat unbearable or overpowering. For the value and the size of the meal, you definitely can’t go wrong you won’t be going home hungry. –HW