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| - What can you say about a restaurant that gives you old style Italian-American food with the casual ambiance of Momma's kitchen but still maintains a gentler, kinder Old World dignity? We loved it!
We got picked up by complimentary limo and whisked to the restaurant like we were special visiting family from out of town.
The Sunday and Monday 1/2 price bottles of wine are an excellent value especially with large groups.
The antipasto platters were a big hit as well as the appetizers...there were forks flying back and forth; I expected sparks! The stuffed portobello special that night was to die for good.
The portions are little large, but hey, it was our first night in Las Vegas and airplane food is non existent these days...
My seafood pasta was tasty but the mollusks were a bit gritty and there was some broken shell pieces....quite the surprise to bite down on a crunchy shell that you thought was a piece of mussel....the lighting is very dim.
But I just ordered another bottle of Barbera and moved on....
My husband's pork chops were excellent, but he is picky about his cheese, so the fontina was not to his taste....but I just ordered another bottle of Barbera and he moved on....
The rest of the group ate, drank and enjoyed their meal immensely while being serenaded by the keyboardist....who kept mentioning it was my birthday....but I just ordered another bottle of Barbera and, so do you see where this is going? It got a little raucus....mea culpa Tony (our waiter).
The complimentary tiramisu they sent over for my birthday was excellent, and the creme brulee done to perfection (most brulees are overcooked like a custard; this was creamy and fragrant with vanilla bean).
If you want authentic Itatlian gourmet, then go someplace that charges for the tap water and you can wear your cruisewear. But if you want good, honest food that is the a product of the evolution of Italian immigrants making American ingredients their own, then you gotta try Casa di Amore. Did I mention they have Barbera?
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