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| - Sarafino's is a lively but cozy place with a pleasant ambiance and good food. I appreciate that the offerings are purposely prepared in a straight-forward manner, and not made with 11,000 ingredients--just old world Italian cooking is all.
I had the special for the evening--two crab cakes with a house salad and a healthy-sized portobello mushroom. Those crab cakes were so much better than anything I have gotten in the Chesapeake Bay area in quite some time; they were light and lovely and delectable.
My hub had the linguine and white clam sauce; I tried it--it was to die for.
A highly-pleasing cappuccino for an after-dinner treat was only $2.95? Say what?!
As if it couldn't get any better, when owner Joe Caliguire was making the rounds in the dining room and found out that we hailed from the nation's capital, he comped us free dessert. We got the tiramisu cake and almond creme horn, and were they smooth, smooth, smooth, baby!
This is a peach of restaurant. I should have bussed Mr. Caliguire on the cheek, but demurred. I coulda given the wrong impression and then got the local people gossipin' and all that, since I never met the man before.
No wonder he got restaurateur of the year awhile back. He understands both food and people, and how to treat them very well.
Pittsburgh--you are lucky and I am jealous.
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