Jeff S. wrote: >Chocoholic A. wrote: >> >> Someone wrote: >> :...Sfuzzi sounds interesting... >> >> Umm..you'd best get another restaraunt. Sfuzzi closed over a year ago, >> I believe. There are three other sit-down restaraunts at Union >> Station which are: America (serves American food), a Southern restaraunt >> with a female owner (Brown something, I think ?), and another restaraunt >> which is in the center of the station on the first level. (Next door, you >> do have Capitol City Brewing company.) That's Georgia Brown (as in Sweet Georgia Brown). It's an upscale restaurant with a large (not solely) Black clientele. I've eaten there several times, including a banquet-room dinner. It's what the book world would call a "genre" work. Exceptionally good example of Southern-style cooking. Peg >Well, I didn't check the newsgroup first and we discovered the >defunctness of Sfuzzi on our arrival. Instead we had dinner at >Coco Pazzo, a very nice Italian restaurant (perhaps this is the one >in Sfuzzi's stead). We shared an appetizer of mozarella and roasted >peppers, a twist on the more conventional insalata Caprese. The bread >basket arrived with three different varieties, all delicious (a heavy >whole grain, a classic Italian white crusty bread with body, and >foccacia, plus a dish of light olive oil). I had rigatoni with sausage, >served perfectly al dente. My wife had spinach ravioli, also quite >good. >These dishes were traditional and not particularly creative but the >faithful to Italian cuisine. I had two glasses of sangiovese plus we >shared a bottle of Pellegrino. Unfortunately a call from our babysitter >caused us to decide the skip dessert and coffee. But we'd go back >again. >The cost was $63 plus tip.
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