I love my dining experience at Zucca Trattoria.
I made my reservation through www.opentable.com for table for 4 on a Sunday evening at 8 pm. I was glad that I made a reservation because when we arrived at 8 pm all the tables was occupied. So make sure you make a reservation if you decide to dine here!
The interior was nicely decorated with vibrate colours. We were thinking about the $25 prix menu specials which they advertise on their website that includes salad/pasta/dessert. To our mismay we were informed that it is not available for March since they are doing the Stop For Food prix menu ($50 with $10 towards charity). My dining mates were little disappointed.... A lesson learned, don't believe the information on the outdated website, call to confirm!
Anyway, I settled on the Stop for Food prix menu and we ordered a main course each: troccoli al nero ai frutti di mare, gallinella al mattone.
The Stop for Food prix menu is a 4 course menu which a number of choices which I decided on pear appetitizer, mussels on bread, lamb skewer and chocolate cake dessert.
The soup of the day ($9) is a mussel with beans soup. My dinner mate thought it was just ok.. I found it has too much beans inside and I am Not a bean person.
The black squid ink seafood pasta ($23) was great! The homemade noodles was so tasty and the seafood so freah! The only problem is it is too small :).
The cornish hen ($26) was so tender! So much favour and so juicy!
I am not a lamb eater.. but the lamb that they serve here wase nicely marinated! Tender, Juicy..yummmm.... I found the side was a little strange.. I don't really eat dandelion... ok I did eat them all before I found out they were dandelion.
Our waitress was really attentative and answered all our questions about the menu.
I wish I can come here more often... but it is kind of pricey with the portion served, so I have to save this for special occasions!
BTW, I think I will try one of their Catch of the Day next time I come! I saw they grilled the whole fish fresh and show it to the table across from us then took that back to the kitchen to have it fileted!
You can found free parking at the side streets just across the road.