OMG, the New Haven restaurant remix
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lauraanne_gilmanI have a feeling that the next twelve months will be interspersed with restaurant reviews because, OMG, New Haven is totally foodie heaven.
Tonight we went around the corner and checked out the little Italian bistro that had seemed nice, if not very busy.
They're probably not busy because they actively discourage students (minimum $14 per diner, per dinner) but they're still in business because OMG the food!* The bread was real Italian (i.e. no salt) and the olive oil was green, fuity and rounded; the appetizer (broccoli rabe and sausage) was excellent, the main courses (pork chops, and scallops with linguini) were fabulous (and huge), and the desserts were OMG. Just... OMG. Crepes wrapped around vanilla bean gelatto, and almond biscotti with vin santo. Plus real espresso, which is rarer than we like to imagine (NOT Starbucks-style). And, to finish up, they offered us glasses of limoncello which I suspect was from the chef's own shelf. Plus a bottle of very nice wine from a nice and not horribly overpriced wine list.
For under $100.
And this is my "local Italian cafe."
They do pizza for lunch, too.
I'm so very very doomed.
(and, obviously, Passover has ended for me, tonight. As I said at dinner -- "Lord? I have sinned. Bread is the least of it. Forgive me, for this is GOOD.")
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kradical? terri_osborne? You SO have to come up here to have dinner. You may not want to leave.
* the decor is also quite nice -- soothing and comfortable and very welcoming, without even the hint of overdone or Synthetalian.
Tonight we went around the corner and checked out the little Italian bistro that had seemed nice, if not very busy.
They're probably not busy because they actively discourage students (minimum $14 per diner, per dinner) but they're still in business because OMG the food!* The bread was real Italian (i.e. no salt) and the olive oil was green, fuity and rounded; the appetizer (broccoli rabe and sausage) was excellent, the main courses (pork chops, and scallops with linguini) were fabulous (and huge), and the desserts were OMG. Just... OMG. Crepes wrapped around vanilla bean gelatto, and almond biscotti with vin santo. Plus real espresso, which is rarer than we like to imagine (NOT Starbucks-style). And, to finish up, they offered us glasses of limoncello which I suspect was from the chef's own shelf. Plus a bottle of very nice wine from a nice and not horribly overpriced wine list.
For under $100.
And this is my "local Italian cafe."
They do pizza for lunch, too.
I'm so very very doomed.
(and, obviously, Passover has ended for me, tonight. As I said at dinner -- "Lord? I have sinned. Bread is the least of it. Forgive me, for this is GOOD.")
kradical? terri_osborne? You SO have to come up here to have dinner. You may not want to leave.* the decor is also quite nice -- soothing and comfortable and very welcoming, without even the hint of overdone or Synthetalian.
