""Classic"" neighborhood restaurant with inventive, delicious food at a reasonable price that is so rare (and wonderful) to find.
The meal:
Grilled pancetta wrapped radicchio with gorgonzola cream sauce with chopped walnuts. Superb!
Frisée salad with roasted golden beets. Excellent.
Clams & mussels pan sauteed with white wine, chili flake, basil & garlic & fettucine Simple, but perfectly executed.
Vodka sauce with sweet italian sausge tossed with penne & hard cheese. Sauce was very good; penne somewhat overcooked.
Banana cream pie. Very unusual and excellent.
2 glasses Alsatian Pinot Blanc and bottle 1999 Rioja riserva. Pot of mint tea.
Total tab for two (before tip): $107.00
Service was attentive and personable. Our waiter had excellent knowledge of the wines and used simple descriptive language to help make choices.
Can't wait to go back and see what other interesting food and wines they serve!
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