No longer do you need to drive to Sacramento for great Italian food! Giovanni You did it!?You have won me over from the stuffy downtown Sacramento restaurants who are simply posing as Italian cuisine. I have never tasted spinach that is so good! Your Salmon Special was so good I thought I was up in Alaska. \r
The Toccagino family opened an Italian restaurant this summer in Elk Grove. Giovanni Toccagino owned and operated Palermo Ristorante Italiano for 14 years in Palo Alto. He sold it in March and joined his kids, who had moved to Elk Grove. The new Palermo Ristorante Italiano is in 2,000 square feet at 7632 Emerald Oak Drive, just off Elk Grove Boulevard. The Palo Alto restaurant featured white linens on the tables, but the Elk Grove incarnation will be a bit more subdued, says Oriana Toccagino, who is working in the restaurant along with her brother, Giovanni Jr., and their father. "We want families to come in often, not just once a year for a special occasion," she says. The menu
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