SKY AVENUE | NEW YORK'S MOTORINO @ RESORTS WORLD GENTING
The iconic Motorino has just launched its first pizza restaurant in Malaysia,
bringing Naples much nearer to us at Resorts World Genting.
Residing at the latest mega transformation
of a whole new retail and dining concept, SkyAvenueoffers a more prestigious brands and world-class flagships merchants which includes Cafés Richards, that is situated just next to Motorino.
“SkyAvenue was built anddesigned for a new generation of visitors, who have a more discerning palate in
food and fashion. They travel more and are familiar
with the brands that we’re unveiling,” said Dato Edward Holloway, Senior Vice President of Hotel Operations, Resorts World Genting.
Now that the appreciation level
of epicurean in general has elevated across the globe in broad view, food and beverages
genre is not spared and expect to have more surprises, as they revel in more
inspiration, to turn culinary experiences into sensuous experience other than just
merely eating. As such, Motorino is
one of the trend-setting lavish establishments to bespoke your taste buds over
here at SkyAvenue.
This Brooklyn and East Village pizza place has New York Times food writers hailing it as the best authentic
Neopolitan Italian pizza restaurant in New York. Owned and operated by
Belgian-Italian born chef Mathieu Palombino who makes
Neapolitan-style pizza in wood ovens imported from Italy, Motorino has multiple
outlets in New York, two in Hong Kong and Manila, one in Singapore, and when it
is unveiled in December, its first restaurant in Malaysia is at Resorts World
Genting’s Sky Avenue!
The Motorino at SkyAvenue will be a 4,000 sq ft space with a façade
featuring gold-bordered Italian windows. Compared to the space-constrained in Hong
Kong and Singapore outlets, this will be the biggest Motorino yet. Keeping
to the original
design ethic of
the American outlets, seating will not be plush nor
opulent. Instead, there will be 1920s metal chairs in burgundy.
“Brooklyn
was an Irish area during that time, so there will also be shades of green
used to reference that, as well as to
lend an element of surprise to the burgundy tones. There will also be white
marble topped tables which are a continuation of the white marble topped pizza counters,” Dato Edward Holloway, Senior Vice President of
Hotel Operations at Resorts World Genting shares.
Motorino will take on the look
and feel of an old space which has been refurbished, but with very little
intervention. “Think about an old American 1920s grocer or pharmacy. It’s a
place which isn’t posh, but which isn’t exactly a hole in a wall, either. In
Brooklyn it would be a place where aspiring singers who do double shifts come
to grab a good pizza. They are the kind of people who aren’t happy with main
stream brands but who are looking for unorthodox artisanal food,” fleshes out Holloway.
The most eye-catching feature of the
restaurant will be two large pizza ovens which
were shipped in from Naples in Italy. Customized pizza spades from
Napoli were also fabricated to be used as decorations. These oar-shaped paddles
traditionally made from one single piece of wood will also be used in the
making of the pizzas.
With patrons being able to watch the
entire process of the making of the fame Motorino pizzas, the design team made sure
that spot cooling was employed around the ovens to amplify the air conditioning
and thus ensure a comfortable dining experience. With Sixties-style lighting
and Pantone glo-balls, Motorino is set to be a time capsule of an area where
the pizza pie reigned supreme.
Diners who have not had the
decadent pleasure of a Motorino experience may be a little taken aback as to
how singularly their menu is dedicated to pizza. Apart from a selection of
antipasti, pizza reigns supreme. However, in true Italian blood, antipasti are
no just
about quelling hunger pangs
before the main event. Italians know that antipasti set the tone for a meal.
As such, Motorino’s antipasti selection gives diners a glimpse into the
quality of the ingredients that will appear on their pizzas. As evidence, the
mixed greens salad and arugula and bresaola
salad will always burst with crispness, freshness and flavour, while the roasted peppers will delight with their natural
sweetness. The buffalo mozzarella with tomato, extra virgin olive oil and fresh
basil will combine richness with tangy juiciness, while the Octopus salad will
bring together sensation and succulence, with clever use of capers, potatoes,
chili oil, red onion and parsley.
Purists will also be able to
delight in Motorino’s meatballs braised in tomato sauce, pecorino and basil. A
little bit of New York Italian culture thrown in!
Motorino offers over 20 toppings
that can be added on to existing pizzas. These include Brussel sprouts, two
kinds of anchovies, fresh arugula, buffalo mozzarella and fior de latte (fresh
mozzarella made with cow’s milk as opposed to buffalo milk), along with
other more conventional ingredients such as turkey, pepperoni and clams.
Patrons can take their pick from
ten stellar favourites, which range from the stripped (marinara, margherita and
pepperoni) to the supremely Italian (stracchiatella with basil, sea salt and
extra virgin olive oil; cremini mushrooms,
and colatura di alici featuring cow’s
milk mozzarella, red onions, grape tomatoes, white anchovies and sea salt). Also on offer is a Brussel
sprout pizza with fior de latte, garlic, pecorino and smoked turkey bacon;
cherry stone clam pizza and an egg, turkey chili variation.
Pizzas range from MYR 45 to MYR
67 for a whole pie, depending on your preferred choice of topping. Hence, wait
no more, come and try out these authentically baked Neopolitan-Italian pizzas
soon, brought all the way from New York to Malaysia, by Resorts World Genting.
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Address:
Level 1, Sky Avenue, Resorts World Genting
Highlands, Malaysia.
Contact:
+603 6101 1118
Operation
hours: 10am to 10 pm (DAILY)
Website:
http://www.rwgenting.com/
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