Cenzo: Lunch at Club Street

Run by ex-Salted & Hung chef Drew Nocente, Cenzo is one of the latest additions in Club Street that offers casual Italian flavours with modern Australian influences. We ditched the $35 2-course set lunch and headed straight for the ala carte. No regrets as everything was tasty, some amazing.
Menu is concise - appetizers, small plates, pastas, mains, vegetables and desserts. We had 3 small plates and 1 pasta, starting with the raw blue prawns with wakame sauce and sourdough toasts. The prawns didn't taste raw and were extremely fresh, synchronizing perfectly with the sauce. Only gripe was the slightly dry toasts.
Veal tongue was stunning and threw us offguard. A must order for anyone who has or hasn't tried it before. I've never tried the beef pastrami which was Chef's signature item since his days at Salted & Hung but the version here was delicious. Soft tender slices of meat that's not overpowered by the sauce and the slaw, all sandwiched between perfectly golden toasts.
Perhaps the small plates had strong flavors, I found the rabbit pasta to be very light. And that's not a bad thing actually. The unique pasta is tossed in some tomato-tasting sauce and crunchy bits.
Drew's Tiramisu was quite a drift from the usual tiramisu. I won't know it is if I hadn't know the name. More like a bailey coffee mousse cake to me.
Would be back to try other dishes again!
 

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