Contact Address:
Website: www.luigis.gm
Luigi's
Italian Restaurant 
Kololi
PO Box 1366
Banjul
The
Gambia
West Africa
Telephone Number: 4460280
(reservations)
Fax: 4460282
Email:
here
Contact Person: Julie Mayo
Directions:
Take a
taxi to
the Palma Rima Junction and turn on the road that leads towards
the beach and you will find the diner around 80 metres on your
left side.
Menu Overview:
Strictly
Italian food.
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Company Profile:
 "People who know me well
would assure you that I once had an ardent, almost psychotic, dislike
of food which ended in "a" or "i".
I often remarked that any country whose culinary product relies on a
surfeit of tomatoes
 and an overdose of garlic and oregano has to be
suspect.
Now I am converted. So let me extol the virtues of Luigi's, at
Kololi
Beach, (pass
Palma Rima, towards the beach).
This is a real FAMILY restaurant. I appreciate that kids of all ages,
(like up to a hundred years old) know and enjoy risotto, spaghetti,
tagliatelle, pizza and pasta etc, but I offer my impressions of this
colourful and attractive menu for your consideration.
• Good Food
The Garlic Bread, with or without cheese, is crispy and not too
overloaded with the pungent root.
Luigi’s "Special" Pizza with spicy beef and prawns was a real delight.
Luigi is rightly famous for his Pizzas, anybody in this country who
knows about Pizza will tell you about Luigi’s Pizzas.
The Seafood and Mushroom baked in Cheese sauce is a smooth and
interesting invention, vegetarians may like the Mozzarella Cheese
fried in batter with Aubergines in a Neapolitan sauce.
• Style
From the pasta menu try Matrican, bacon and onion with a spicy sauce
served with tagliatelle. Or try Risotto Pesce, rice and fish with
tomato, simple, but effective.
The finest taste in Luigi’s, to my mind, is the "House Special",
Chicken cooked in a spicy coating. Mindful of my waistline I often
remove batter and breadcrumbs from such dishes. Joy of joys, the
flavour was actually infused in to the flesh of the chicken. Col.
Saunders can retire!
• Decor
The plain clean lines of classic Roman villa architecture resemble a
movie set from "Ben Hur". Sensuous balustrades, bronzed caryatids, a
Tuscan fountain, and marble tiles. Plenty of space and marble topped
bistro tables which can be moved around to accommodate large parties.
Or take the stairs to the roof top balcony with a sea view.
The waiters (obviously) are dressed in the red, white and green of the
Italian flag.
The wines are fine. The house red is a Merlot, well kept and well
presented.
• Praise
At Luigi’s Italian food reaches a peak which many trattoria would
break their hearts to achieve. So do get down this sepulchre of
ambrosia and enjoy........or use the Take-Away service which includes all
the Pizzas and most of the rest of the menu.
And do not forget the milk shakes (THESE ARE FOR ADULTS ONLY) and
there are some glorious ice-creams."
Food writer: Harmattan
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