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| - Really nice, high quality home style Italian dishes at extremely reasonable prices. We had two appetizers, a huge dish of pasta, a pizza, a glass of wine, and one dessert for $65 including tip. And because we are not huge eaters, we took enough leftovers home for lunch the next day.
The details:
Appetizers were grilled veggies (very nice, fresh, with just enough oil but not too much, better and much less expensive than the similar dish at Cibo) and anchovies (wouldn't recommend unless you really like anchovies -- just anchovies in oil with a little interesting sauce I couldn't quite identify).
Pasta was fresh homemade fusilli with four huge meatballs and a delicious simple tomato sauce, a very well made dish and a total steal at $11. More than enough to feed two people. I believe I heard the server tell someone that the meat is medication free, organic or something, but I may have heard wrong. In any case, the meat was super tasty and better than supermarket quality ground beef.
The Margherita pizza was almost indistinguishable in quality from pizza in Naples, so you know if you're looking for Canadian/American pizza you won't get it here. They use the same tasty, simple tomato sauce as on the pasta, with very flavourful fiore di latte. The crust was perhaps a little tough on the edges but not greasy at all.
For dessert we had a huge slice of apple cake, nice and fresh. My only complaint there is that it took a really long time to get to us.
For drinks, they have quite a long list of wines by the glass (at least 5 whites and 7 reds) and the prices were between $6-9/glass. They also have a long list of local microbrew beer.
We live nearby and will be going again soon, so if my opinion changes I'll change my review but at this point I say Luce is an incredible bargain and a nice family-run neighbourhood joint well worth trying for simple, homemade food.
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