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Someone wrote:
>It's my understanding the cuisine is of a Northern Italian persuasion.
Fontanella is pretty hard-core red sauce. And they have their parmesan in a shaker jar, so you know it's a classy jernt.Chicago, IL
Southside Italian Gem
User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC) Message-ID: Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 13:23:17 CST X-Trace: /VU+Whl+Fp+2kvqBDdYLhkQbNDa/wVQkXl1EMxPEQQZ2/8aJO/rzTuw+AkSfg+== X-Complaints-To: [email removed] X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 19:23:17 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu chi.eats:14607 I ventured out by myself today for lunch. I spend a lot of time in Chinatown and have passed Bertucci's Corner, on 24th St. and Princeton many times looking for parking. Today I stopped in. All I can say is fantastic! It's a family owned and run restaurant and bar that has been there since 1933. They have about 15 specials everyday. From fried ravioli to the usual suspects linguini and clams, sausage and peppers...etc.. I had the Pasta Putanesca. Angelhair pasta with a sauce that's tomato based, using capers, anchovies, two kinds of olives. It was heavenly. I threw in an Italian sausage on the waitresses recommendation. At lunch they serve Turano's hard crusty but light in the middle bread, at dinner they move to D'Amato's bread which is a heavier Italian bread. Lunch is their busy time M-F. There's about enough seating for 40 people with most tables set for 4 people. The place was full the whole time I was there. Tables clear quickly because the food is served quickly for the lunch crowd. I was told that dinners are much slower and a table can always be had. The plates of food are very large. I could have only eaten 1/2 and had the rest as a midnight snack but I gorged. I'm sure you can smoke in the restaurant, but none of the 40 people were when I was there. Prices were 5.95-7.95 for lunch which includes bread. Service is very friendly, attentive, and efficient. The waitresses seem to know most of their customers. My tab for the pasta, additional sausage, and neverending ice tea was 10.95 with tax. Parking is at a premuim, I found a space a block away. http://www.bertucciscorner.com/
User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC) Message-ID: Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 14:29:36 CST X-Trace: sv3-lutddo5KwKFBQFF7rDO1nv5oaII3qQh7836IRrTrEo3nFh2RbY6SQ7YJXzfJ0SRTBOOpzONruA7EG+/GvLJUK4Qr6lzoH2/N9NDa+hNFB5KJfBdhRDX5vx7Iy9q+BSeYJExY+== X-Complaints-To: [email removed] X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 20:29:36 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu chi.eats:14610 Michael S. wrote: > Kenji wrote: > > I ventured out by myself today for lunch. I spend a lot of time in > > Chinatown and have passed Bertucci's Corner, on 24th St. and Princeton > > many times looking for parking. Today I stopped in. All I can say is > > fantastic! > > Thanks so much for this post. I love and adore this kind of place, and had > two or three near where I used to live in upstate NY -- can't wait to stop > in. (And no, when I went to Manhattan from AlbanyI didn't say I was "heading > downtown." :) Any other places of this sort you can recommend? There's a bunch of them at 24th and Oakley here in the City, which is called the Heart of Italy neighborhood. In another group a guy who lives in the Heart of italy says these are his favorites: La fontanella Bacchanalia Ignotz It's my understanding the cuisine is of a Northern Italian persuasion.
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:11:42 CST X-SessionID: [email removed] X-Hash-Info: post-filter,v:1.4 X-Hash: 93e0fc95 4c1181b2 de6fae96 920ffe91 240b8060 Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 19:11:42 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu chi.eats:14623 Someone wrote: >I ventured out by myself today for lunch. I spend a lot of time in >Chinatown and have passed Bertucci's Corner, on 24th St. and Princeton >many times looking for parking. Today I stopped in. All I can say is >fantastic! > >It's a family owned and run restaurant and bar that has been there since >1933. They have about 15 specials everyday. From fried ravioli to the >usual suspects linguini and clams, sausage and peppers...etc.. I had the >Pasta Putanesca. Angelhair pasta with a sauce that's tomato based, using >capers, anchovies, two kinds of olives. It was heavenly. I threw in an >Italian sausage on the waitresses recommendation. I've eaten here a few times -- my take on the food doesn't match yours. It was good but nothing special. It's definitely a nice neighborhood place where people know each other. Does anyone have anything to say about Bruna's? Last time I was in Heart of Italy I wanted to eat there but my vote was overridden and we ate at some newish place that wasn't so great.
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 02:41:49 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 02:41:49 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu chi.eats:14630 On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 19:11:42 GMT, Computer Monkey wrote: >Does anyone have anything to say about Bruna's? Last time I was in >Heart of Italy I wanted to eat there but my vote was overridden and >we ate at some newish place that wasn't so great. I've enjoyed Bruna's the several times I've been there. Good CRISP chicken vesuvio, good saltimboca.