Went last night. After spending a while talking about the menu and having trouble choosing we decided to go with the $55 chef’s-choice prix-fixe and that worked out great. Four of us had:
- Prosciutto di Parma, arugula, aged balsamic, Grana
- White anchovy, radish, egg, bagnet vert, whipped butter
- Kale, lemon pepper dressing, romano, pangrattato
- Beets, ricotta, dates, carrots, olives, pistachios
- Cavatelli, arugula, potato, anchovy, chili, pangrattato
- Tortiglioni, beef braciola, Sunday sauce
- pappardelle? with asparagus, cultured grass-fed butter, and mint
- Meatballs, neck bone gravy
- White beans, slow cooked greens, chili
- Whole canary rockfish, purple potato, salmoriglio
- strawberry & rhubarb tart with panna? gelato
- Cannoli, ricotta, orange, cocoa, hazelnuts
Standouts for me were the kale salad (wilted with salt, labor-intensive but much better than raw), the tortiglioni, the pappardelle (probably thanks to the butter it tasted like it had more than the four simple ingredients), and the fish (bigger than it looks in the photo, four big portions). This is serious Italian food, the best ingredients combined simply to show them at their best. They make their own bread and ricotta.
We drank 2015 Terre del Barolo Verduno Pelaverga, a light but flavorful red that went with everything. Finished with amari including one I’d never seen before, Amaro Punito, very nice, sort of like Averna but lighter.