This week's menu in Belval, 19 to 23 October: cavatelli, the little hollows

On Monday we open at 6:30, as we do every week.

This week the menu has hollows in it, which is good news.

Monday 19 to Friday 23 October

Gnocchi di Zucca · €22.80
Pumpkin on Gorgonzola cream with speck. (1.3.7)

Cavatelli al Tonno · €21.80
Tuna, capers and cherry tomatoes on a potato cream, with crispy onion. (1.3.4)

Risotto al Broccolo Viola · €22.80
Purple broccoli, stracciatella, pistachio pesto and Apulian tarallo. (1.7.8)

Ravioli Burrata e Prosciutto · €23.90
Filled with burrata and prosciutto, with a lemon sauce. (1.3.7)

Puccia al Polipo · €23.80
Grilled octopus, spinach, stracciatella and cherry tomatoes. (1.7.14)

Tagliata di Pollo · €24.90
Halal chicken fillet, sun-dried tomatoes, spinach salad and homemade yoghurt sauce. (7)

Little hollows

Cavatelli means, more or less, “little hollows”.

The word comes from Molise, from a verb meaning to hollow out. The shape comes from the fingers: you press two or three fingers into a short rope of dough and pull it towards you. The dough curls and hollows.

They are made this way in Molise and Puglia, and across much of the south.

The hollow is not there for looks. It is where the sauce settles. This week that means tuna, capers and cherry tomatoes on a potato cream, with crispy onion on top.

What is inside a burrata

From the outside, a burrata looks like a mozzarella.

Inside, it is something else: stracciatella, strands of mozzarella in cream. Burrata comes from Puglia, from around Andria.

This week it fills the ravioli, with prosciutto, under a lemon sauce.

The stracciatella turns up on its own in two places: on the octopus puccia, and in the purple broccoli risotto, with pistachio pesto and crumbled Apulian tarallo.

And the pumpkin

The gnocchi come with pumpkin, on a Gorgonzola cream, with speck. Late October is the season for it.

On Sunday, pasta has its day

25 October is World Pasta Day, and has been since 1995.

We are closed on Sundays. So we started early: gnocchi, cavatelli and ravioli, all week.

Coming in

Eat in or takeaway, Monday to Friday from 6:30.

The numbers refer to allergens, and the full list is on mycaffe.lu.

MyCaffé, 6 Rue de la Fonte, Belval.

Buona settimana.