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Capricciosa which means capricious in English refers to careless, casual, frivolous, whimsical. In Greenbelt 2, it means new Italian restaurant.

My friend and I came upon this place feeling ravenous after our spa session. The place was new to our eyes, brightly lit and the girl by the door was looking at us so intensely as if willing us to eat there. Maybe she sensed my hesitation while reading their menu as I was not in the mood for Italian.

It turned out my stomach was stronger than my appetite and hunger took over satisfying my taste buds.

We perused the menu and it took a while really for both my friend and I to decide. For one, the menu was very simple. It had the usual: antipasti, insalata, pizze, zuppe, caldi, spaghetti, gelato. Although the menu listed several items under each category, there was very little information to tell you about the dish. It felt like somehow, there was the assumption that the diners there would know what ingredients were included in an “escargot croquette”.

Second, there were no pictures!! There was no opportunity to feast with your eyes and nothing to help you decide instantly on what you would like to order.

It was taking too long for us to order that we had to call out to the waitress and have her give a monologue on what the difference was between this spaghetti and that spaghetti, does the regular serving already made for 2 or do we have to order the large, do you have diet soda or not (I had to ask as the info was not available in their menu - and they did have diet soda).

While waiting for our food, I looked around the place and agreed it had a nice “new” feeling to it. It did not exude “cozy”, rather it showed “modern”.

Our pizza arrived and I was excited and apprehensive at the same time. I have hated blue cheese all my life so it was probably fate that Capricciosa did not decribe the ingredients that they put in their dishes. Our pizza was called Quattro Formaggio. Yes you guessed it right - four cheese pizza… which I’m sure included blue cheese. Good thing, it tasted great!

The crust was so thin and crisp it was like eating a cracker. The salty cheese topping complemented the weak crust. Yummy!

The pasta we had was called Eggplant and Spinach in meat sauce. The name made you think vegetarian at first until you noticed the “meat sauce” trailing after it. Apparently, they had a secret meat sauce recipe (or so the waitress says) and for this dish, they just cooked the eggplant and spinach with it.

Not expecting much from a still overpoweringly vegetarian pasta, I was surprised how I liked it. It sort of made me feel like I was eating in a redandgreen-walled Italian pizzeria.

Unfortunately, our stomachs did not have room for dessert and so did our wallets. The prices were quite expensive for a dish you could have at another Italian place somewhere. But alls well, we were satisfied with the meal and went out happy.

Will we return? Maybe. But maybe not with the same regularity that we show to our other fave restos.

Do you want to find out something interesting about the place though: its history is not quite what you would expect.

The menu is decorated with the byline: Authentic Southern Italian Flavor. Guess who the started this restaurant? Masaaki Honda and he first branch he opened was in Shibuya Tokyo. I don’t believe there even is one in Italy at least I did not find anything in any of my searches. Funny.

Capricciosa
Greenbelt 3 3rd Level
Ayala Center
Makati City
Tel. No: (632) 757-7811

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