Pasta

Question 1

Tonnarelli Cacio e Pepe

Answer 1

Pecorino and black pepper. Tonnarelli pasta made fresh in house, from egg, water, and flour. Tossed with pecorino, black pepper, and sometimes butter.
Allergies: Dairy, gluten.
Pairing: Grosjean Freres 2008, Vigne Merletta, Fumin

Question 2

Chitarra con le Accuighe

Answer 2

Sicilian anchovy and butter. Dry pasta thrown in the pan with fried anchovy, pasta water, butter, colatura, and grana padano.
Pairing: Dairy, gluten.

Question 3

Bucatini all’Amatriciana

Answer 3

Dried pasta fortified with tomato, chile, and guanciale from La Quercia. Amatriciana originates from Amatrice, a small town in Lazio, 100 miles from Rome.
Pairing: Sesti 2010 Rosso di Montalcino.

Question 4

Spaghetti alla Carbonara

Answer 4

Dried spaghetti from mancini, tossed with guanciale, rendered fat, egg, black pepper, pecorino.
Pairing: Marco de Bartoli, 2012 Grappoli di Grillo

Question 5

Spaghettini alle Vongole

Answer 5

Dried spaghettini from Mancini, tossed with white wine, clams, garlic, olive oil, pepperoncino, parsley.
Vongole broth: mussels, clams, white wine, parsley stems, garlic, olive oil, chili flakes.)
Traditionally uses vongole veraci, a wild mediterranean clam that we can’t get in the USA.
Pairing: Benanti 2011 Carricante

Question 6

Papperdelle alla Bolognese

Answer 6

Pork/ Lamb Ragu, tomato, grana padano. Fresh pasta, made in house. Bolognese: ground suckling pig/ lamb, salumi trim, cheese rind, grana padano, milk, parsley, fennel seed.
Sauce: Heavy cream, tomato, butter, parsley, lemon, grana padano.
Pairing: Adanti 2007 Sagrantino di Montefalco.

Question 7

Malfatti

Answer 7

Braised suckling pig and arugula. Malfatti is made fresh from leftovers of torn pasta sheets. Pork (pork stock, white wine), veal stock, lemon, arugula, grana padano.
Pairing: Rocche dei Manzoni, Vigna de la Roul.

Question 8

All’ Arogosta

Answer 8

Dried pasta made with lobster stock, tomato, lobster butter, lemon, parsley, chili flake, thai basil, lobster meat.
Lobster stock: lobster shells, shallot, garlic, cognac, white wine, chicken stock, parsley, tomato paste, fresh herbs.)
Allergy: chicken, dairy, gluten, shellfish.

Question 9

Strozzapreti

Answer 9

braised lamb neck, white bean, and tomato.

Question 10

Cavatelli

Answer 10

pork sausage, tomato, rapini, pickled chili. Garlic puree, lemon, pecorino.