Saturday night we went out with some friends of ours to Stuzzi for dinner. We arrived around 6:30 and were seated within 5 minutes - didn't even have time for our drink at the bar to be drunk! The restaurant didn't have any of the a/c problems that I had been reading about....and I really love the transformation from when it was 1 North Belmont. We ordered two appetizers, the eggplant crostini and the mozarella friti. The crostini was $3 and there was only one crostini on the plate. It was good - but really hard to share with 4 people! Felt like our Waitress should have mentioned that we would have ordered two! The mozarella was really fresh and yummy...the breading very light. We enjoyed that. It was served on fresh tomato's -which I pushed aside for the others to enjoy. (don't do tomato's or mayo!!)
We decided to share two pizza's and a pasta for dinner. I enjoyed the italian sausage and rapini one on my last trip so I suggested that one, and Mike picked a littleneck clam white pizza. The bucatini pasta was one I also wanted to try. We ordered the baked olives as well. The pizza's came out very quickly and were both quite tasty. There were literally clamshells on the pizza - and it had the right amount of garlic to make it great. The sausage one was a good as I remembered - could use more rapini though.....I love greens! The pasta was v. good - my favorite. The sauce was tomato and pancetta. The noodles were al dente and paired well with the sauce. I want to go back for just that! The baked olives were interesting and very good. We ordered a bottle of sangiovese to go with dinner and it was a bargain at $25 a bottle.
We were done with dinner by 8 and still felt we had some time before going home so we walked over the Secco the new wine bar on Carytown. We waited for a table for about 15 minutes - but got a glasss of wine to tide us over - I had the Sauvignon Blanc - quite good, very crisp and nice on a summer evening. When we were seated Mike ordered two desserts the white chocolate with olives (yes as weird as it sounds) and the rice pudding. Did not like that all....reminded me of halvah the middle eatern dessert. The wine was good which is why we went there - definitely not a dessert destination though. I would like to go back and try their other food - it looked intriguing. Great cheese selection on the menu too.
Going to Lulu's on Thursday night for a Taste of Shokoe - haven't had dinner there yet.
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