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| - I took my Mom here last night, and we proceeded to order way too much food. ;-) We ordered the Farinata as an appetizer based on other reviewers comments and photo's. It was exactly what others have said, basically a potato pancake...green onion's, olives baked in... delicious and we ate it all.
My Mom ordered the Tonnarelli, which was a square spaghetti pasta with garlic and light tomato sauce and Pecorino cheese. I ordered the Slow Cooked Beef Brisket. Both were excellent dishes, relatively simple in preparation but flavorful and farm fresh and big portions. The house made pasta is tender and cannot be mistaken for anything but freshly homemade. The Beef Brisket was tender enough to cut with a fork and was perfectly seasoned. We took about half of both dishes home.
It's a relatively slow dining experience, because they bring out each dish as a course. We did not intend to eat family style (I actually hate family style dining, unless you are with FAMILY, luckily that was the case). The next time I would ask them to bring the Primi and Secondi course at the same time, just because we were there for almost two hours. I also ordered the sky potatoes with garlic and rosemary, nothing special about these they are pan fried potatoes, but they were "simple" good.
Complimentary bread olive oil + small plate of fire grapes and sausage slices + Farinata (Antipasti - "Appetizer") + Pasta (Primi - "First Course"), Brisket (Secondi - "Main Course")... Potatoes (Contorni - "Sides") is too much food for two average people. Luckily they didn't have or didn't offer dessert last night.
We will totally come back here, but the meal was a little heavy for summer, so it probably won't be two/three times a month like our other regular spots. Food was top notch, and service was also on point for us, server explained each dish like a pro because there is a lot of foodie/Italian wording. OH and Chris Bianco was in the house and checked on us and thanked us for dining there.
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