Enjoy La Dolce Vita on Leeds' Park Row, when paying a visit to Riva Blu. This finely decorated restaurant offers you a taste of Southern Italian life, thanks to its style and glamour. Art features on the wall, with warm lighting hanging overhead, and staple teal Riva Blu furnishings dotted throughout.
Try a sharing starter of delicious freshly baked bread topped with sweet tomato and garlic sauce made using the finest tomatoes grown in the rich volcanic soil of San Marzano, or a seafood heaven consisting of calamari, wild red prawns, red mullet, king prawns and whitebait with confit garlic mayonnaise, chilli and lemon mayonnaise, chives and lemon dressing. Antipasti options include a thinly sliced raw beef carpaccio with Italian dressing, rocket, crispy capers and pecorino romano, along with the sashimi grade tuna tartare with fennel, chives, olive tapenade and crisp Sardinian flatbread.
As for the pasta, which is the star of the show for many Italian cuisine lovers, there are classic dishes like seafood linguine, spaghetti carbonara and a rich, slow cooked bolognese, alongside more creative dishes of butternut squash filled pasta with roasted squash cream, spicy ve-duja, sage and toasted walnuts, and an indulgent linguine with half a lobster, vine ripened tomatoes, chilli and fresh basil.
From land and sea, try the grilled seafood skewers with line caught tuna, king scallops, king prawns, courgette, basil, chilli and lemon, or the beef and pork meatballs with a tomato, chilli and basil sauce, and fresh toasted sourdough to dip. For a lighter meal, such as lunch, order one of the salads, stuffed with goodness such as parma ham, buffalo mozzarella, parmesan, Italian leaves, spinach, semi-dried tomatoes, apple, balsamic and honey mustard dressing.