What's New Restaurants: Tiago, Indigo Mall

You have to be pretty proud of your restaurant’s ingredients to put them up on the wall for all your customers to see. The team behind new Italian restaurant Tiago clearly is, because that’s exactly what they have done. For those in doubt, we’re assured that they really do use them – if you stop by in the afternoon you might even catch one of the chefs up on a ladder stocking up on olive oil and Tipo 00 flour before the dinner service.

This kind of quiet self-assurance in what they’re doing suffuses everything about Tiago, from the unadorned contemporary décor to the confidently short menu. Certainly it’s a breath of fresh air for Indigo, where the norm is chain restaurants like Blue Frog and Bibigo.

Wading into Tiago’s menu presents a study in the classics: a smattering of pastas (RMB 38-69) and a handful of pizza varieties (RMB 69-99). All are well executed, at times quite delicious, but the surprise standout is a wild mushroom salad (RMB 48), which while not perhaps as wild as the name implies, is satisfyingly piquant with chopped herbs and vinegar. A giant portion of pillowy tiramisu (RMB 39) is the kind of good that makes you wish you had had an Italian nonna to teach you her secret recipe growing up, the perfect balance of bitter coffee and not-too- sweet mascarpone. Match it with one of their Segafredo espressos (which we’re told already have people spurning the Starbucks across the way) and celebrate the arrival of a solid mid-range Italian option to the Beijing dining scene.

Tiago
Daily 10am-10pm. L173, 1/F, Indigo Mall, 18 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District (6348 8772)
酒仙桥路18号颐堤港商场1层L173商铺(星巴克对面)
200m south of Jiangtai Station (Line 14)

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