There are a lot of nice restaurants within a few blocks of their house and many more up the avenue in Chestnut Hill. We've gone out to a few of them over the past four years by ourselves and with family or friends but we just didn't make it to the closest restaurant. The pandemic didn't help. Actually it's been a couple of years since we went out to any restaurant while visiting them.
We made our reservations for the outside patio and walked down there on Wednesday evening. It was beautiful out with a slight chill in the air. On Sunday and Wednesday they have a special pre-fix dinner and we decided to go with that option that included an antipasti, primi, secondi, and dessert. The special was $37 per person. Cash only. We had a wonderful dinner. We sat on the patio which was on the side of the building along with about a dozen other people spread across a few tables. The inside looked very nice too and there were people at a couple of tables.
This restaurant does not have a liquor license and is a BYOB establishment. Fortunately there is a wine and liquor store across the street and a cash machine nearby. Becky is not drinking alcohol for health reasons and I didn't want a whole bottle. I walked over there earlier and bought one of those little boxes of wine that hold about three glasses. It was a nice pinot noir and worked fine for our dinner.
Our dinner consisted of Rucola, an arugula salad with lots of great ingredients. Capino, roasted beets, goat cheese and pistachio pesto. Then some Pappardello lamb ragu with hand made pasta and Ravioli stuffed with wild mushrooms and ricotta cheese in a cream sauce. Next was Peposo short ribs with risotto porcini and Anatra which is a duck confit with truffle polenta, mushroom and marsala sauce. Finally we both had a cannoli. We also had a bottle of Italian sparkling water with dinner. We loved everything and had a very satisfying walk back to Katie's house where I finished off with a bottle of Oktoberfest.
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