This is our fourth time dining here. It’s an easy choice for casual dinner with delicious comfort food since we had intended to be downtown anyway. We had to start with some cocktails. Andrea went with the Braccialetto which was made with mezcal, citrus, and amaro. This had decent mezcal flavor to it with a bit more body from the amaro and a nice bit of acidic lift from the citrus. I went with the Aperitivo which was made with gin, nebbiolo vermouth, and Bruto Americano (similar to campari). I’ve been on a little bit of a gin kick ever since India and London. This was decent, but we both still preferred the Braccialetto.
For food, we decided to mostly try dishes we had not yet tried here with the main exception being the Raviolo which I can’t resist. For starters, we went with the Arancini Duetto. We’ve most recently had arincini at Fiorella and The Morris so we were interesting in comparing. We were not disapppointed. First off, the arancini we’ve previously had were either small canapés (at The Morris) or just a bit bigger (at Fiorella), but these were more substantially sized and one of the arincini was shaped like a pear. This was a duetto, so the first was made with English peas and the second was made with pork an hazelnut. Both deliciously different and more substantial than the previous ones we’ve had. We also started with the Snap Peas which sounded like a nice fresh seasonal dish where we could get some vegetables and it was all that.
We both ordered pastas because I had to the have the Raviolo and so Andrea went with the Agnolotti del plin. The Raviolo of course was beautifully presented with the very orange yolk strikingly featured front and center. I always love this dish for it’s delicious simplicity, but I actually felt like it was swimming in just a bit too much butter (shocking for me to say, I know!). The agnolotti was a perfect preparation – the past was thing and stuffed with a mild meat stuffing (rabbit I think) with a flavorful bit of sauce/broth and just a bit of fried sage.
For our meat course, we went with the veal since we wanted something we don’t eat often or prepare at home. The veal came cut off the bone cooked to mostly a medium temperature (although a bit medium well on parts) with sides of cannellini beans and some fried potatoes. Again, we don’t eat veal often, but we did find the veal to be a bit bland for our taste and we really wish we had brought some salt. Of course, maybe we just like the meat of older cow.
We were fairly full, but we always have room for dessert. Since they had a Rhubarb & Almond Crostata, we went with that since Andrea loves rhubarb. We so typically would see rhubarb with strawberry so it was nice to get just rhubarb.
All in all, it was a decent meal and generally delivered everything we were looking for.
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