In central Nicosia, Crosta Nostra has updated its menu and cocktail list, based on recipes from Southern Italy, including Sicilian and Neapolitan dishes. The menu includes fresh pasta, pizza and a range of Italian ingredients.
Crosta Nostra is an Italian restaurant serving dishes from southern Italy. Its name is a play on the phrase “Cosa Nostra”. The restaurant’s name refers to the crosta, the crust of Neapolitan pizza, which appears on the menu.
The restaurant has both indoor seating and tables on the pedestrian street outside.
Neapolitan pizza makes up part of the menu. According to the source material, the dough rests before being baked at high temperature in a wood-fired oven. The pizza menu includes Margherita, Marinara, Capricciosa and Diavola, as well as Truffle & Mushrooms, Cuor di Leone with Aegina pistachio pesto and stracciatella, Dante Alighieri with nduja and pancetta, Quattro Formaggi and Giovanni Verga.
Salads and starters on the menu include Caprese with burrata, cherry tomatoes and Aegina pistachio pesto; Palermo with fennel and orange; Crosta with beetroot and ricotta; a Caesar salad; and a salad with goat’s cheese, dried fig and mandora marmalade with Commandaria. Starters include bread with flavoured butter, bruschetta, Parmigiana di Melanzane, Sicilian arancine and beef tartare. Pasta, risotto and gnocchi are prepared daily, with ingredients that change by season.
Pasta dishes include ravioli with spinach and ricotta, gnocchi with gorgonzola, pear and pecan, pasta al limone, carbonara with guanciale and pecorino romano, amatriciana, rigatoni with nduja, lasagne, and tagliatelle with white ragù and truffle. Seafood dishes change daily depending on availability.
Main courses include lamb chops with a herb crust, cotoletta alla milanese, beef tagliata with bone marrow butter, and grilled umbrina fillet with seasonal sides.
The cocktail list includes a Margherita made with fresh red chilli and Aperol, an Old Fashioned with tangerine and miso, and a version of the Negroni Sour made with milk liqueur and pink grapefruit.
Desserts include Sicilian cannoli, tiramisu, profiteroles with Aegina pistachio cream, espresso affogato, and the Crosta Ring, a pizza-dough dessert filled with ricotta, chocolate and vanilla ice cream.
16 Zinas Kanther, Nicosia. Tel: 22 210435.
