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| - I thought the food here was very good. It didn't absolutely blow my mind, but the freshness of the ingredients was what really made it shine. We had the salumi plate to share. The salumi were house-made, which was nice. Not much a fan of the head cheese (I don't like aspic-y jello-like consistencies), but the rest were lovely, if not overly-spiced like mass-produced Salumi are (Batali's dad at Fra'mani does it a bit better, but these were nice). The pickled olives, onions, and radishes were a lovely touch.
We had the pasta bolognese and the lobster spaghetti. My bolognese was wonderful. The pasts was VERY fresh, and the flavor was good, even if the portion wasn't very big.
The lobster pasta was just GREAT There was quite a lot of lobster in it, the flavor was nice, but not so overpowering that you couldn't taste the sweetness of the lobster. The pasta was lovely, and the garlic chives on it tasted like they'd just come out of the garden. Simple, clean, EXTREMELY fresh, and good flavors. Very nice, I just might've wanted to take some leftovers home. But alas, there weren't any. I suppose that speaks well for the place. I'm always a little skeptical of restaurants by big name celebrity chefs, but this was great, if not stunning.
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