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my fiancé and i enjoyed our dinner here last night. we live locally and were wondering what was going to go into the space where toby’s once occupied. the most obvious similarity between these two establishments is that the brick oven remains in the back. we ordered the gnocchi, the cacio e pepe w sea urchin, and the sautéed kale side. i’ve been curious about the sea urchin pasta since i first saw the menu. while this was a great cold weather dish, i was somewhat disappointed by the amount of the sea urchin on top. in my minds eye, i pictured 3 orange tongues of uni on top of a creamy bowl of pasta. the pieces were smaller, about the size of a woman’s long fingernail. no matter, there was definitely some uni in the rich sauce. this was comfort food with a little remix and i enjoyed it. the gnocchi was amazing. parsnip and pistachios worked well with the pillowy gnocchi. and who doesn’t like more greens ? we will definitely come back for this one. the kale was sautéed with what tasted like balsamic and super caramelized and thinly cut shallots (?). it was addictive. i love when restaurants prepare veggies in a way that makes you want to wolf them down. there was a mix up in the kitchen (they thought our gnocchi order was for the paparadelle) so the cacio e pepe came out minutes before and they comped our gnocchi. much appreciated and the sign of a restaurant that understands good service. every worker we encountered in the restaurant was friendly and welcoming. could be a good spot to eat alone or w a date at the bar too. i enjoyed a glass of house red on tap. for dessert we had a meringue with hazelnuts, chocolate, and roasted pear on top. it looked like a lot of dessert and i feared it would be too sweet but we ate the whole thing. we will be back for the pizza !!!! the people at the table next to us had the margarita pizza and it was perfectly toasty and charred from the oven. the price point is slightly above a neighborhood joint we can go to all the time, but it is quality food and sometimes you just gotta treat yourself. sorry this posted twice. i was on a bus.

Bufarella La Pizza Di Napoli – Menu with Prices – 5975 N Federal Hwy #103, Fort Lauderdale

Bufarella offers authentic neopolitan style pizza that rivals some of the great pizza I’ve had. The crust has that crispy / chewy/ tender thing going on that seems to elude most restaurants outside of Italy. I’m extremely loyal to another authentic Italian restaurant farther south in Fort Lauderdale called Osteria Acqua & Farina which also delivers a similar quality, but Acqua & Farina’s pizza is a bit thinner and if the test is how close is this to pizza in Naples, I think Bufarella wins. Acqua & Farina has a broader selection and a little more elegant atmosphere – both will be on my short list and fans of either restaurant should check out the other if in the mood for a change or at the other end of town. At Bufarella, we had the signature Bufarella pizza – fresh mozzarella, simple crushed tomato sauce, basil and a drizzle of olive oil. It was probably about 12-14″ and alone would not be quite enough food for two people. We paired it with an order of Cacio e Pepe, which is always a good test of a restaurant that claims to be authentic Italian. The pasta didn’t disappoint and was prepared in the traditional way with bucatini pasta, which held the sauce really nicely and made it very slurpable. Splitting the pizza and the pasta for 2 people left us satisfied, but not stuffed – for me that’s a plus so I’d label the portions as perfect. Some would consider them small, especially if you compare them to American Italian restaurant. Service was attentive and friendly. Decor is nice. It did feel a bit sterile, possibly because we were the only two customers in the place at 7pm. I hope that was a fluke because this place really deserves to be full. We paid about $18 for the pizza and $18 for the pasta. While certainly not cheap, I felt the prices reflect the quality and service and are in line with the other place I mentioned and other coal oven pizza places like Anthony’s; however, portions are slightly smaller. Didn’t check out the wine or deserts but will try to save room for next time.

Quickie Bakery – Menu with Prices – 2019 Corpus Christi St, Laredo

What can I say about the hot buttered biscuits other than they have tasted the same ever since I was a little girl, to die for. RIP, Mr Rodman, when Pepe was in charge and now that someone else is managing it, you really couldn’t make out any difference except Pepe had us laughing all the time. Missing you Pepe, hope u r in good health.

Theatre Cafe – Menu with Prices – 529 Main St, Worcester

My only regret is that I have never been here before! The cafe has been open for 9 years, and it’s one of those best kept secrets of Worcester. Everything is made from scratch and they source from farms for fresh meat. Soups are not mass produced or prepackaged. They are made from fresh ingredients everyday. The clam chowder is creamy but not thick. It will warm you up nicely and remind you that you are in New England. The duck wings are delicious with a nice sesame sprinkle and sauce. Definitely an Asian flare! There are so many things I want to try. My husband enjoyed his chicken parmesan with perfectly cooked penne pasta. I have never thoroughly enjoyed gnocchi before. But I was really craving lamb and they were paired for the daily special. This was the best gnocchi I ever had. A nice sear on each gnocchi gave it just the right texture. The sauce was delicious, and I really wanted to take half of it home. But I decided to go full caveman and practically lick my plate! They do fun looking events like a supper club and they are open later for dinner when there’s a show at the Hanover Theater. But you need to make a reservation for those nights. They are primarily a breakfast/lunch place, so we need to go back for pancakes soon.

Trenta, pizza & cucina – Menu with Prices – 1661 Superior Ave Ste. D, Costa Mesa

Decent restaurant, not great, and the cons for me outweigh the pros. Came here on a Saturday night at 6:20pm. We had a choice of sitting inside or outside. The inside is extremely loud, a bit crammed with tables and we would have spent alot of time speaking in raised voices and shouting “What?” The outdoor patio is fine for conversation. We ordered a panzanella salad, the short rib paparadelle and a special pizza and cannolis. The service is really slow and I believe it’s because of being understaffed. The server we had was perfectly pleasant but she was serving tables across the entire restaurant and it was obviously she was super busy. We ordered the salad first, but the pizza and pasta took well over 30 minutes to be served after that. When it arrived, both dishes were lukewarm. The wait was explained due to people ordering the Trenta pizza. Apparently, this special pizza is so big that it takes up the entire pizza oven, so when someone orders it, it backs up the pizza baking queue. We must have had at least a couple of tables ordering this thing. The pizza was actually good, considering it was served at room temp. I would have loved for a hot out of the oven pizza, especially because the crust become rather tough and chewy pretty quickly. Same with the pasta. The parardelle was surprisingly bland and kind of dry, due to the ragu not really having a sauce to it. The noodles were sticking together and came out lukewarm. The papardelle is a miss for me. But we ate everything as we were pretty hungry by then. The cannoli looked really good in the photos, but they were just average. Spending time in Sicily, I can be a real cannoli snob but I’ve had better at other places. On the plus side, wine is very reasonably priced here. You can order a bottle for $35 and many tables were taking advantage of that. It was over $100 for two people. There are so many Italian restaurants that it’s hard for me to justify coming back and hopefully this was an off night.

Buon Appetito – Menu with Prices – 685 Lansdowne Ave, Toronto

Homemade pasta place operated by chef himself. Additionally to pasta the menu offers few salads, sandwiches and staple pizza. Pasta is pretty good, especially for the price, – wouldnâ??t say it is a fancy restaurant quality, but waaay better than in pizza chains. The owner is a friendly guy, and always happy to see returning customers. Perfect place to grab dinner to go on your way home from Lansdowne station.

Rose’s Luxury – Menu with Prices – 717 8th St SE, Washington

When your friend and roommate of 2 years suddenly gets into medical school in another state, you have but one choice – cross off the thing you’ve been talking about doing forever, which was to go to Rose’s luxury. What better way to celebrate friendship and her budding career? We got a late reservation at 9:30 PM the day of at 9:27 AM on a monday night. Staff is really good with keeping up with your reservation, and gave us a seating choice, along with whether we wanted to dine earlier. We ended up keeping our reservation, and chose to sit behind the chef’s table, which was a fun and entertaining experience! Rose’s luxury has the environment of your grandmother’s home hosting a big shindig with all of the energy of your college friends. Coming in, you see simple linens draped over circular tables, *mood* lighting, and lots of couples and friends engaged in lively conversation. Tucked in the back is a beautiful romantic garden setting, complete with string lights. The chef’s table was a bar setting with the opening of a scene into how each chef plated their dish, with each chef assigned 2-3 particular dishes. Enough about that though – we settled on the tasting menu which kicked off with a bang – coconut ice cream with caviar. They gave us cacio e pepe bread too, which was really delicious. The experience was eye-opening, with the creaminess of the ice cream blending in with the sea-salt flavor of the caviar – it was almost reminiscent of the flavor of popcorn, although the texture was nothing like it. Next happy oysters were served, which was pretty clean, but nothing too crazy. After was an egg and asparagus salad, which I quite disliked – none of the elements seemed to blend in with each other and it was like tasting an egg salad with vegetables that seemed a little jumbled. Right after though, was the star of the show – the lychee salad. tip, if you don’t eat pork, they will happily substitute tempeh, which was just as delicious. The salad was everything that it was promised in terms of its verbal and written accolades. You look at the ingredients on this dish and think, “this can’t possibly work”. And yet, the sum was greater than its parts – the coconut cream tied in with the spicy pork sausage, and lended its sweetness to partner with the lychee, and the peanuts gave it a great savory crunch. This dish can make any raw onion hater a convert. It was so, so good. The more I kept chewing, the more flavor I found. I can’t even use the words of the english language to describe what I felt on my tongue when eating that salad. Then came the heavy hitters, which is to say, a plate of cacio e pepe pasta, fried chicken (huge portions, slightly asian feel), and a southern style brisket sandwich, adorned with cow toothpicks and plated on a red checkered tablecloth patter plate. The pasta was ok – you did really taste the floral aspect of the peppercorns, which was well done. The fried chicken was delicious and sweetened with really good honey, but nothing too crazy. The brisket sandwich was ok as well. The last two dishes transition to the end of your meal, which consisted of first a guava coconut sorbet and then a creme fraiche tart. You would expect the first dessert to be saccharine given its inputs – and yet I found the sorbet to be exceedingly salty, which I didn’t enjoy. I do appreciate salt in desserts and hate when desserts are too sweet, but this I thought was a little too much. It was an interesting call to the beginning dish to coconut and caviar though. Last but not least, the creme fraiche tart with sabayon was delicious – you could really taste the alcohol coming through that thick sauce! It was the perfect summer dessert. All in all, I think this is a really interesting restaurant to explore – the service was really outstanding, and the environment was really cool. Food wise, I think Rose’s does a great job elevating classic dishes, but tasting menu wise I thought there were lots of plates that d

Pizza Pazza Wood Fired Pizza – Menu with Prices – 207 E Alameda Ave, Burbank

I’m not being dramatic, literally the best pizza we have EVER had. We had been on a mission for two hours to find a great pizza place and none of the places we saw were really giving us a grand feeling. There was a small little building as we left Trader Joe’s and my husband saw the word pizza. He decided we’d eat there. Best decision of our lives. I’m so glad we got to eat here before their lines are wrapped around the block because not only is their food out of this world delicious, but the people that work there, I believe it may be a family, were so kind, warm and attentive. We originally sat at one of their cute little romantic style tables, but I love heat, so I wanted to go sit by their great brick oven. Great decision! We had already ordered a pizza before we moved and as I sat at the counter, he pulled out a giant calzone! We were definitely oogling it. Well, he kindly asked if we wanted to make our into a calzone and we said yes! Such a great decision. Melty, oozing cheese, fresh toppings and perfect sauce with the best crisp dough. Most delicious pizza ever. They even gave us samples of their traditional dessert, it was great. Don’t forget to try one of their regional sodas! They serve beer as well, salads, pasta, home cooking…so it’s a well rounded pizza spot. We plan to eat here a LOT! Don’t second guess, just go!

La Vecchia Cucina – Menu with Prices – 2654 Main St, Santa Monica

We had to pick up my daughter’s engagement ring in Santa Monica, CA. It was being downsized bc she is tiny like her father. We considered where to eat lunch. I wanted to eat at Tandoori but even though it was only 3.4 miles away she said it would take 1/2 hour to get there in LA traffic:-( So I said okay:-( I really wanted some ethnic food with a lot of loud flavors. I looked in the window and saw an African American couple eating. I kept looking at them then I thought well black people like good food, as I am also black. Perhaps we could give this Italian place a try. I looked at the lunch menu and found PRIX FIXE SPECIAL – $18 First Course: Choose any Appetizer, Soup or Salad Second Course: Choose any Pizza, Panini or Pasta I wanted CUNEO – $12 A wedge of iceberg lettuce topped with buttermilk blue cheese dressing, pear tomatoes, avocado, hard boiled egg, apple wood smoked bacon and crumbled Maytag blue cheese and MARGHERITA pizza – $13 Tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and basil After eating the delicious brick oven baked bread with a dish of garlic and basil in olive oil our lunch came. The visual presentation of my wedge salad was appealing. I should’ve had them hold the avocados bc I don’t like the messiness but they are full of potassium which I desperately need! The order came with a mound of sliced avocado on to and I raked them off. The salad was DELICIOUS!!! I wished I’d have ordered a full plate of this salad. The bacon and buttermilk blue cheese dressing was ON POINT! The next part of my lunch came the Margarita pizza and it was ok BUT the basil did not top that of Olivella’s in Dallas, TX. I wanted to enjoy a cocktail but the did not have a cocktail menu like Ruth Chris Steakhouse does in Fort Worth, TX. They are all chalked on a small board so I skipped the cocktail. I really enjoyed my lunch here with my daughter and mother. Mom and my daughter shared and eggplant dish. MELANZANE ALLA CAPRINA – $11 Rolled slices of eggplant stuffed with goat cheese and herbs, topped with our marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese, basil and oven baked I tasted the remnants of what she left in the crock and the tomatoes were delicious! She also ordered the rigatoni to go with her fixed price lunch and I was glad that I didn’t order that. Spaghetti/rigatoni is a hard dish to satisfy others. The choice and amount of meat can really throw this dish off. I like MID’s spaghetti sauce so I wasn’t going anywhere near the rigatoni dish. She must not have been too enthused about it either bc she brought it home. RIGATONI BOLOGNESE – $17 Rigatoni tossed with our signature meat sauce I’ve been spoiled with daily pasta lunches at Crispino’s in upper Michigan and Pepe’s in New Haven, CT so I was not about to be disappointed by this pasta!

Pepe’s Kitchen – Menu with Prices – 1311 S 11th St, Lincoln

Pepe is a local entrepreneur with a worldwide chain of one. He has been at this location for a little over a year and has been at several locations over the past 7-10 years. As it is my first time here, I am going on the word of my friends who have known Pepe for years. We came on a weekday for lunch with a group of 5 one is Vegan. Oh, by the way, Pepe’s is meat free It’s a moderate size location with seating for about 25-30. There is a partial divider between the kitchen area and dining area. We settled on the Vegetarian burritos, black bean quesadilla. The menu is not large 4 items that rotate on a quarterly basis (so I am told) As I gather from the signage at Pepe’s, he promotes supporting the community and local farmers when possible. He assists those in need with bicycles and their repair. The food came out. It was not quick as every item was prepared fresh for our order. First off, the guacamole is outstanding. I’d come back for that anytime. The items we ordered were quite good. Fresh grilled vegetables and homemade sauces and sides. The hot sauces (which were produced and bottled locally) they were variations of habanero peppers Pepe was gracious enough to give us fair warning about the sauces and how hot they were. The vegetarian of the group, who had been there many times before, filled us in on the sauces by saying select your sauce by which ends of the body you want it to burn… I think I’ll pass on the sauce today, thank you. If you want locally sourced, made with love food, Pepe’s is a good place to go. Enjoy

Kool Beanz Cafe – Menu with Prices – 921 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee

From the name, I thought this was a hippie coffee bar. It has an eclectic name and looks very unassuming from the outside. But if you can get past that and try their dishes it’s well worth it. Their menu changes every day so you know it’s fresh. I stopped by around noon on a Friday and was able to find parking (barely). I wanted to stop by since I heard Yelp raves about the fish dishes here and am a fresh fish fiend. I grew up fishing in the Atlantic and cooking what we caught a few hours prior. I ordered the pecan-crusted trout with roasted red potatoes and sautéed kale ($14). The fish was incredibly fresh, and everything was perfectly seasoned, although my only complaint is that the kale was swimming in oil but it was still good and didn’t taste greasy. I wish I had wine with it because it’d be the perfect complement. I couldn’t leave without dessert, so I ordered the strangest and longest item on the menu. The toasted oak ice cream tasted woody (but delicious) and had crunchy bits inside. I loved the chocolate crumbles around the cake. The mousse part of the cake was on the border of sickeningly sweet and too sweet, although I enjoyed the crust. I’ll be coming back often – although I may just stick to the entrees with my college budget. If you want to get away from most FSU students (except me) and in search of delicious/unique food, Kool Beanz is the place to go in Tallahassee.

Mucci’s Italian – Menu with Prices – 901 W Lake St, Minneapolis

Mucci’s is a fine replacement for the ill-fated Meyvn space, and has arguably taken the neighborhood by storm. I admit I myself have become somewhat addicted to the place, and I’m trying in vain to get out of the habit of coming in here at least once a week. GOOD: The food Italian-American is prepared to high standards, and it’s ruined me for the more run-of-the-mill places. The pasta tastes fresh, and the sauces are on point. Garlic, lemon juice, oregano, and other strong flavors permeate throughout. You will taste your food here, whether you want to or not! Pasta is the star here. I recommend the rigatoni (for flavor), spaghetti (for the adventure), or the lasagna (if you are angry hungry). For the regular pasta, consider a half portion – it’s enough, trust me. Side dishes are also good. I especially recommend the Hangover Kale. Even if you think you don’t like kale, get over it and try this. Guaranteed to wake the dead. Winter is coming. The pizza is also nice. Best you’ll find in the area for sure. Feel free to customize. (But make sure you get the traditional hand-tossed crust – see below.) Cocktail program is also excellent, and it’s genuinely fun bar to sit at. Mucci’s Juice is a bastardization that should not exist, and I love it so. The Italiano is a very nice cocktail for annoyingly snooty drinkers like me. All the mixed drinks are good here. Happy Hour specials are a good bet if you are on a budget and are just looking for little bites and little sips of awesome. MEH: Perhaps I’ve gone in here too often, but the menu is starting to feel a bit stale. I’ve been reassured that they are slowly phasing in their winter menu, but I haven’t seen much change yet. I’d especially like to see more pasta variations, and a much wider cocktail list. C’mon guys, let’s keep the innovation coming. I’ve also been surprised at how unimpressive the wines are here. Quite unexpected, since you would think an otherwise awesome in every way Italian joint would have the best wine. I hope this improves, because I do enjoy a tannic red wine or a dry white with my Italian food. Is it just me? BAD: The pizza here is very good IF you get the regular hand-tossed crust, but dear lordy do NOT order the DEEP FRIED crust option with your pizza pie. It’s the only horrible thing in this restaurant in my opinion, and I have no idea how it became so popular in their St. Paul location. (Or did I just answer my own question?.. I’ll show myself out.)

Tomaso’s When In Rome – Menu with Prices – 23655 N Scottsdale Rd Suite 120, Scottsdale

Delicioso! The Spaghetti Cacio e Pepe is so good! Topped it off with cannoli made with fresh ricotta cheese from Sicily. OMG The service was exceptional, too. Our waiter was very knowledgeable about the menu & wine list. He was also very friendly. He accidentally spilled wine on another patron but handled that situation like a true professional. The bussers worked in concert with the waiter like a well oiled machine. The manager, Georgia, was extremely friendly and recommended we try the wonderful cannoli. She treated us like long lost friends and this was our first time here! There was a pianist playing live music…not too loud at all and sounded wonderful! We traveled all the way from Litchfield Park to try this place and were not disappointed. I believe we will be back again. One final thing…the bathroom was beautiful..very clean, and had a purse hanger in the stall.