Pastas

Question 1

Gnocchi Ortolana

Answer 1

Ortolana: an Italian dish made with multiple vegetables

Homemade gnocchi (a small potato dumpling pasta), oyster mushrooms (mushrooms with a wavy, shell-like shape and subtle, savory flavor), asparagus, cherry tomatoes, shallots (a member of the allium family similar to an onion but with a sweeter flavor and less allium taste), garlic, basil pesto sauce (an herbaceous green sauce made with basil, garlic, pine nuts, EVOO, and parmesan)

*contains nuts!!!
*vegetarian

Question 2

Paccheri Lobster

Answer 2

Grangagno Paccheri (a large tube-shaped pasta from Paccheri, a southern Italian town in Naples/Campagnia) with half lobster, Manila clams (saltwater clams originally found in Japan), and a lightly spicy garlic & cherry tomato sauce

questions - where do we get our lobster from?

Question 3

Lasagna

Answer 3

Neopolitan meat lasagna (lasagna made with beef, veal, and pork made in the traditional Naples-style way), tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, bechamel sauce (roux made with butter, flour, and milk), parmigiano reggiano, basil

Question 4

Gnocchi Gorgonzola

Answer 4

Homemade gnocchi, cream gorgonzola (blue cheese from Northern Italian with a milder taste/texture than other blue cheeses), fondue, topped with walnuts

*can add cripsy prosciutto for $5
*vegetarian without prosciutto

Question 5

Linguine Tarantine

Answer 5

Linguine pasta (a flat, narrow noodle similar to spaghetti or fettuccine) made in the style of Taranto (a seaside town in Puglia), with squid ink, small-cut jumbo scallops (a mollusk similar to an oyster, clam, or mussel), clams, roasted garlic, with a light, spicy tomato sauce

*basically just seafood pasta

Question 6

Ravioli

Answer 6

Homemade spinach ravioli (a stuffed, pillow-shaped pasta - in this case, green because of the spinach), filled with wild mushrooms and ricotta (an Italian whey cheese made by coagulating the proteins left behind after the casein has been used to make other cheese, notably mozzarella), and a fondue truffle sauce

questions - what kind of mushrooms? what kind of cheese in the fondue sauce?

*vegetarian

Question 7

Fettuccine Wild Boar

Answer 7

fettuccine pasta (a flat, wide pasta shape similar to spaghetti and linguine), with 24-hour slow-braised wild boar (similar flavor to pork and beef), in a Chianti red wine reduction sauce, San Marzano tomatoes (a variety of plum tomato from the Campagnia region, a prized & protected varietal that can only be imported), parmigiano reggiano

questions - what are the ingredients in the Chianti sauce?

*Chianti is a red wine made from sangiovese grapes in the Chianti region of Tuscany

Question 8

Cavatelli Seafood

Answer 8

Cavatelli pasta (small pasta shell), with octopus, salmon, shrimp, scallops, cherry tomato, calabrian chili (a medium-hot chili pepper from Calabria, Italy)

question - what kind of octopus? rings? is salmon the same as our salmon entree?