"The person who order the shrimp
and garlic used one of those fastidious technical terms-"yummy" to
describe the dish, which came with tomatoes and white wine sauce.
Pretty good marks also for the garlic bread, which was crispy and...with
no lack of seasoning. Big salads preceded the entrees. They came
in bowls large enough, nearly, to be serving bowls. So few will
walk away hungry.
"It's easy for gnocchi to come out hard,
but this is very tender," said the gnocchi chooser." And "they
got it right" said one connoisseur after tasting the marinara
sauce with the ziti.
"The
shrimp scampi was attractive with accompanying bright green broccoli
and soft gray mushrooms. The
shrimp was pleasurable, complemented rather than overwhelmed
by the garlic and the white whine sauce. We...[ordered] Chocolate
Delight, which turned out to be layered cake with an edible
gold
leaf and a hint of anise.
Good enough
for us, no argument."
-Bobbie
and Tom Wilkinson, The Washington Post
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