Primi

Question 0

Spaghetti is de cecco

Answer 0

Is an upscale Italian pasta made of durum wheat flour and water

Question 1

house made meatballs

Answer 1

Meatballs made from pork and beef ricotta cheese bread crumbs eggs milk chili flake Parmesan cheese

Meat was scarce added bread crumbs milk and cheese

Gives the meatball a lighter and softer texture

We hand roll and braise our meatballs in tomato and white wine

Then cooked in promodoro( tomatoes onion garlic and basil) 3 hours simmered
3 meatballs

Question 2

Ingredients of spaghetti

Answer 2

3 meatballs, promodoro, spaghetti, and shaved parm

Question 3

Tagliatelle bolognese

Sauce

Answer 3

Pork, veal and mire poix,(carrots celerly and onion) white wine, and nutmeg but the milk is the trick

Question 4

Tagliatelle bolognese noodles

Answer 4

Tagliatelle means to cut

Made in house with semolina flour egg and water

Question 5

Tagliatelle bolognese

Answer 5

Meat sauce, tagliatelle pasta, topped with ricotta salsa

Question 6

Ricotta salata in the tagliatelle bolognese

Answer 6

Aged ricotta–> is a sheeps milk cheese that has a nutty salty finish

Question 7

Local shrimp linguini

Answer 7

All shrimp come from charleston or Georgetown
The fond left from sautéing The shrimp is deglazed by the pasta water and then thickened with butter

chilies ( jalapeño) and lemon garnish and parsley

10-12 shrimp

Question 8

Radiatore

Answer 8

Pasta made in house 
Chicken confit ( fried in fat)
Prosciutto ( unsmoked Italian bacon)
Grilled radicchio 
Walnut ans fresh shaved horseradish

Question 9

Fettucini Alfredo not on The menu

Answer 9

Named after Alfredo di lelio his restaurant was in Rome in 1914
The chicken in the dish is leg and thigh and if confit (cooked in fat)
Sauce is a besciamella, a rich cream sauce with nutmeg and Parmesan

Question 10

Bucatini carbonara

Answer 10

Carbonara means coal burner (abundance of black pepper)
Started by rendering pancetta, then frying scallions and black pepper in the fat then pasta water and noodles are added the one egg Is added to creates binder of the sauce allowing the sauce to become rich and creamy

The pasta bucantit comes from the word buco means hole

Question 11

Pomodoro- tomato

Answer 11

The spaghetti is de cecco( an upscale Italian pasta made old durum wheat, flour and water)

Local cherry tomatoes are blistered in evoo

Sweet garlic is whole garlic cloves that is roasted in Cinzano( Italian vermouth) until it becomes sweet and syrupy coating each clove

The dish is then cooked down in the promodoro sauce and finished with bread crumbs and basil

Question 12

Lasagna

Answer 12

7 layer of sweet Italian sausage, mozzarella, asiago, ricotta and promodoro

Question 13

Gnocchi

Answer 13

Potato dumpling

Made from Tipo “00” flour potato and eggs

Sausage,chives,spring white onion,green garlic in a Parmesan sugo finished with grated pecorino Romano, which is a hard salty sheeps milk cheese