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| - Trambusto is a newly opened, modern-Italian entrant into the rapidly growing fast casual dining space (ie. the space that falls between fast food and full service with Panera being the most prominent example).
The menu is divided into salads ($8-$9), house-made pastas ($8-$12), and Roman-style square pizzas ($6-8/$10-14/$20-28 for individual, shareable and group sizes respectively).
My wife and I got a chance to go here for the soft opening about a week ago as we are friends with the Executive Chef for the company. As a result we got to sample a number of the dishes and were able to a good idea of the menu. Dishes we tried were:
1) Panzanella - tomato, spinach and Fior di Latte salad with house made focaccia croutons.
2) Bucatini all Amatriciana - bucatini pasta with a big flavoured, slightly spicy red sauce with bacon and red onion
3) Cavatelli pasta with a sweet pea pesto, fresh ricotta and truffle oil (the latter of which gave this dish a luxurious touch - it was my personal favourite).
4) Smoked Prosciutto pizza with Mejool Date sauce, arugula and toasted almonds
5) Affumicato pizza - pizza with good quality smokey bacon, tomato sauce, mushrooms and scallions
6) Patate pizza - a white pizza with potatoes, ricotta, rosemary and truffle oil
In short, we had a great experience at Trambusto with each of the dishes exceeding our expectations in terms of their quality.
I thought the menu was well balanced, with some creative pastas (eg. sweet pea pesto) sharing space with more traditional offerings (such as a traditional spaghetti with pomodoro sauce, a rigatoni with Wellington county beef ragu etc.). The portion sizes were generous (with pasta being enough for a standalone lunch/dinner and a shareable pizza being enough for two people to comfortably split) and perhaps most importantly the ingredient quality in each dish was also very high with an obvious focus on keeping things fresh (eg. house-made pastas, good tasting produce) and high quality (eg. truffle oil, real Fior di Latte etc).
All in all, the value proposition at Trambusto is very good, with full-service restaurant quality food being delivered at a fraction of the full service price.
I think this concept is going to prove to be very popular, and with several additional locations in the works this will likely be soon coming to an area near you so stay tuned.
Highly recommended.
-Brian
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