This week's menu in Belval, 26 to 30 October: paccheri, brasato and oyster mushrooms

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

Sunday was World Pasta Day. This week, we carry on.

Monday 26 to Friday 30 October

Tagliolini ai Pleurotus · €22.80
Oyster mushrooms and cherry tomatoes on a potato cream. (1.3)

Paccheri agli Scampi · €23.80
Courgette cream and scampi. (1.2.3.7)

Risotto Speck e Gorgonzola · €22.80
Speck, Gorgonzola and walnuts. (7.8)

Ravioli al Brasato · €23.90
Filled with braised beef, with a wine reduction and primo sale cheese. (1.3.7.12)

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)

A good slap

In Naples, a paccaro is a slap.

Paccheri take their name from it. They are wide, smooth tubes, and the story goes that the name comes from the sound they make when you eat them.

This week they come with a courgette cream and scampi.

Embers

Brasato is Italian for braised. The word comes from embers.

To braise is to cook slowly, covered, over a low heat. The fire has changed since, the idea has not: meat that takes its time.

This week the braised beef fills the ravioli, with a wine reduction and primo sale, a young cheese.

An ear on one side

The oyster mushroom’s Latin name, Pleurotus, comes from Greek: pleura, the side, and oûs, the ear.

Its stem does not grow from the centre of the cap but from the edge. And it does not grow in soil: it lives on wood.

This week it goes with tagliolini, cherry tomatoes and a potato cream.

And the risotto

Speck, Gorgonzola and walnuts. Three frank flavours, and the rice to bring them together.

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.