Luncheon Menu

Pasta Tasting Menu

 Pasta Tasting - $13.00  Every day we offer a sampling of seasonal, daily-made fresh and filled pastas, imported Italian dry pastas, as well as risotto, and polenta dishes. The selection changes every day, following the season and the market. Your plate will be refilled as often as you like, by servers carrying pans of freshly cooked pasta through the dining room. Your server has sampled today's selection and will describe them for you.

Panini

 Piadina con Prosciutto Cotto - $9.95  Italian cooked ham and Fontina cheese on Piadina, a traditional flatbread from Emiglia-Romagna

 Bistecca - 9.95  Grilled slices of beef Flatiron steak, garlic butter, roasted tomato, and crispy onion rings on housemade ciabatta

 Salmone - 9.95  Salmon fillet, crisp bacon, romaine lettuce, sliced tomato and garlic-parsley mayonnaise on ciabatta

 Pollino Nuovo - $9.95  Herb-marinated, grilled chicken breast, with basil pesto, tomatoes, and fontina cheese on our housemade Tuscan bread

Insalate

 Insalata 'Cotta e Cruda' - 12   A 'cooked and raw' salad of Boston lettuce, string beans, tomatoes, Sicilian olives, roasted peppers, red onion, boiled potato, and red wine vinaigrette, topped wtih a perfectly coddled egg

 Polipo alla Griglia con Olive e Patate - $9.75   Grilled octopus with warm potatoes, red onion, Gaeta olives, and capers tossed in red-wine vinaigrette

 Tagliata di Manzo - $12.50   Slices of rare grilled beef tenderloin with a salad of arugula and shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano tossed in a red-wine vinaigrette

Luncheon Dishes

 Tonno Tonnato - 12.50   Yellowfin turna loin rolled in seasoned breadcrumbs and seared rare. Sliced thin an dserved over tuna-caper sauce with mixed baby lettuces

 Fritto Misto - $9   Calamari, rock shrimps, red onion and zucchini, lightly coated and fried until golden. Served with a spicy Marinara sauce and mixed seasonal greens

 Frico - $9.95   A specialty of the Friuli region of Italy, the Frico is an envelope of golden-brown, crisp Montasio cheese with potato, leek and the filling of your choice. Served with a garnish of mixed baby lettuces. Choose from Asparagus and Bacon or Alaskan King Crab and Scallion

 Cannelloni Ripieni di Ricotta e Spinaci con Salsa ai - $12.50   Tender egg pasta sheets, rolled around a filling of fresh ricotta cheese, spinach and sauteed leeks, baked in a casserole under a sauce of wild mushrooms and topped with grated Parmigiano-Reggiano

 Gnocchi con Anitra in Guazzetto - $13.50   Hand-rolled potato dumplings with slow-simmered duck in a rich sauce

 Pollo al Limone e Olive - $13.50   A classic dish of pan seared chicken breasts, paired with a sauce of roasted lemons, capers, and olives from Sicily and served over velvety spinach

 Salmone e Lenticchie - $14.50   Thin cut salmon fillets, brushed with garlic oil and flash-cooked under high heat. Served with a marinated lentil-vegetable salad and roasted tomato vinaigrette

 Bistecca alla Kansas City con Patate Istriane - $16.50   A 10 ounce Kansas City strip steak finished with a rosemary- sea salt-anchovy rub, accompanied by twice fried potatoes and roasted tomatoes

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