Pork Ragu Pappardelle
Incanto – San Francisco CA
The Dish: Pork Ragu Pappardelle
Any meaty pasta that Chris Cosentino and company at Incanto prepare will likely be among the best pastas you’ll eat in San Francisco. The wide, flat pappardelle noodles are house-made fresh, and the meat sauce is simply awesome. Full of flavor and slightly chunky, the [...]
Archive for the ‘Meaty Pasta’ Category
28 Feb
MEATY PASTA: PAPPARDELLE WITH VENISON RAGU
Pappardelle with Venison Ragu
The Dish: Pappardelle with Venison Ragu
I certainly enjoy hearty meaty pastas. And I usually enjoy the requisite napping that follows. As meaty pastas go, the pappardelle with venison ragu at Big Sur Bakery is outstanding. Rich and flavorful, the sauce puts a tingling in the mouth straight away. The venison is slow-cooked, [...]
20 Dec
Spaghetti & Meatballs (Sodini’s Bertolucci’s, S. San Francisco CA)
SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS
The Spot: Sodini’s Bertolucci’s Ristorante, South San Francisco CA
Sodini’s Bertolucci’s is the kind of old-school Italian joint that you would imagine finding in downtown Las Vegas, or in Eastern New Jersey. With its giant signage, black-and-white awning, and exterior murals of Italian landscapes, it’s a holdover from another era, and a surprising discovery [...]
20 Dec
Meatballs (Osteria La Buca, Los Angeles CA)
MEATBALLS
THE SPOT: OSTERIA LA BUCA, LOS ANGELES, CA
The décor at Osteria La Buca is charming and warm for an urban conversion, with high ceilings, exposed steel beams and brick walls. The interior blends simple sophistication into an overall feeling of a neighborhood joint and since that part of L.A. doesn’t have many, it’s a nice [...]
28 Nov
Spaghetti & Meatballs (Joey & Eddies, San Francisco, CA)
The Spot: Joey & Eddie’s Restaurant
As one of the few restaurants in North Beach that are really good, Joey & Eddie’s won me over the week it opened. The décor is comfortable but low-key, with a large, spacious and open main dining room of deep booths and dark wooden tables and armless, captain’s style chairs. [...]
