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| - We had an amazing experience at Otto recently for lunch. Everything was amazing: our server was amazing, the menu was amazing, our food was amazing, and our table on the patio was amazing (in the shadow of the intriguing leaning tower of salumi).
I had to chuckle when the waitress took our pasta orders and mentioned that the pasta was prepared al dente but she could have it cooked more if we wanted, so it would be soft. It was a sweet offer. Perhaps she mistook us for people from the Midwest or something, but I laughed out loud (which was not polite, but it was a gut reaction) when my 8 year old said he liked his pasta cooked properly -- al dente. She understood the message precisely and what we received was perfectly cooked pasta with extremely flavorful sauces. So flavorful, in fact, that we acted like we were from the Midwest and sopped up the sauce from the empty plates with our bread. :)
We didn't really want to leave so we looked at the dessert menu. I almost choked on my tongue when my teenager said he wanted the "three flavors of gelato for $12". WHAT, I thought. (Not really. "What?" is what I said; WTF is what I thought.) But then both kids wanted that, and after reading the flavors we all wanted that. So we picked our three flavors, all four of us, and -- I CAN'T BELIEVE IT -- spent almost $50 on essentially four scoops of ice cream. But what ice cream it was. Awesome textures and flavors. The Olive Oil gelato was the most interesting ice cream I've ever eaten. An experience we are glad we didn't miss.
We'll certainly return on a future visit to Las Vegas, or New York, or Los Angeles, or
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