To close, I enjoyed our meal at La Nonna. I was not wowed by any means, but it is definitely worth going to for some good Italian food. I would go back and try more items off the menu. Their wine selection was great.
Her Take: Ash Wednesday. No Meat. This Wednesdate thing isn't gonna work out. But we make it work ;) My cousins on my dad's side opened up a new restaurant on the north side called La Nonna Ristorante and I had yet to be there. I told Nicky "hey darling lets go to La Nonna tonight" "sure honey" so we went! (and that is sorta how our conversation went)
We arrived and the place is beautiful and we were greeted so nicely; I haven't seen them in a while.
They sat us down and I quickly looked at the wine list because it was one of those days. Nicky told me I was in charge of ordering any bottle of wine that I wanted so I went with the juicy Primitivo which turned out to be awesome. As I said before, it was Ash Wednesday so we couldn't eat any meat (because we are good Catholics) so for appetizers we ordered the Salumi & Formaggi - hold the salumi- only had the cheeses which were four different cheeses: parmigiano, pecorino, goat cheese, and burrata, and it came with a spicy jam. SOO yummy and we also got the Pizza Tartufata Alla Griglia which is grilled pizza with grana padano, aged fontina and fresh truffle (which was way too big for just us, but we tried to eat it all anyway) and it was delicious, might have been my favorite part of the meal, besides the wine!
For entrée I ordered a salad (how girly of me I know) because it sounded really refreshing and im a sucker for blood orange reduction; I had the Rucola e Pere salad, which is arugula and pears with gorgonzola, caramelized pecans and blood orange reduction. It was very good and a nice size. Nicky ordered the special of the night, Cacio e Pepe (translates to cheese and pepper), which is actually a traditional Roman dish consisting of spaghetti, cracked black pepper and pecorino Romano cheese; that's it! a very simple dish. I wasn't too crazy about it which was unfortunate because I really love this dish; it was lacking flavor, didn't taste like cheese, only pepper and Nicky even put extra cheese! Kind of disappointing. We were really full because that pizza put us over the edge, so no dessert for us! (especially no dessert for me because I gave it up for lent!) But Giovanni, one of my cousins, gave us two espressos on him to complete our meal. We took our time there which was nice, we spent about 3 hours just talking and sipping on our wine and the service was excellent! No one bothered us or tried to rush us! Very important!! I would like to go back to try their meat dishes and give their pasta a try. Just a heads up: they have a lot of fish on their menu!!
Pizza Tartufata alla Griglia
Cacio e Pepe
Rucola e Pere
Wow! The pizza looks good, Ariana! You made a fine choice getting the Primitivo wine. I'm sure both the pizza and the wine taste good and matched well with each other. Glad you had a great date night. Thanks for sharing that! All the best! :)
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