A first look at Glasgow’s newest Italian, Assaginni in the West End

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Assaginni has opened in Glasgow’s West End, an Italian restaurant specialising in small plates.

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00:00 Assagini is a kind of sharing concept,

00:02 Italian sharing concept,

00:04 where we prepare some pasta or some pizza as well.

00:07 Pizza is different kind of pizza,

00:09 it's in between pizza and pizza Napoletana.

00:12 So it's the same dough, the pizza,

00:14 but make it with different kind of flour.

00:16 As well, to start with, you can have some fritti,

00:20 some side dishes as well,

00:22 some different kind of charcuterie,

00:26 like speck, like parma ham as well.

00:29 We suggest to have more than one dishes,

00:33 because the portion is going to be a little bit smaller than usual.

00:36 It's going to be 100 grams of pasta, really still filling,

00:38 but in this case you can try all different kind of pasta or pizza that we propose.

00:47 As well, we've got a lot of different kind of options,

00:50 like vegetarian or vegan as well,

00:53 because some pasta can be vegan.

00:55 The pasta is going to be all fresh,

00:59 some of the pasta make it without egg,

01:01 so it's going to be eggless,

01:03 it's going to be fine with the vegan option,

01:06 and as well some of the sauces are going to be the same.

01:09 Even for the pizza, we're going to have a couple of vegan,

01:13 and four or six different vegetarian options as well.

01:18 All this kind of pizza and the pasta,

01:21 we're pairing with West Brewery beer,

01:24 which is a brewery here in Glasgow.

01:31 We tasted a lot of different kinds of breweries,

01:37 but to match our menu, we chose West Brewery.

01:44 We got only eight beers from them,

01:48 over the 40 different beers that go in the portfolio.

01:53 We're going to change every season,

01:56 it's going to be seasonally,

01:58 for the food and the beers as well.

02:01 Each dish is paired with a different kind of beer.

02:05 We're going to have the Riccardo di Carbonara,

02:08 it's paired with the Mungo,

02:10 so it's a nice lager, simple, not too spicy, not too fruity.

02:17 Then we go, for example, with the vegan option,

02:19 with the Orecchiette Verdi,

02:21 something lemony as well,

02:23 we got the Velo Lemon from West Brewery.

02:26 That's why we got a non-alcoholic option,

02:30 or a low-alcohol option for West Brewery.

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