Archive for the ‘Spaghetti & Meatballs’ Category

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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