It is on Merrick Rd. in Rockville Center. It s a small, quaint, 15 table Italian style restaurant that serves a very lovely menu of fish, veal, chicken and lots of specials that change every night. I love going there on a Monday or Tuesday evening as the weekends tend to be busy & a little noisy, but the owner & staff are wonderful -attentive and the food is consistently excellent.
The have a great selection of wines- Tonight we had a 2004 Amarone (one of my new favorites) Valpollicella- just Wonderful- warm, hearty & velvety smooth.
I normally get the whole grilled Branzino, served with extra virgin olive oil, lemon, parsley & lots & lots of slices of fresh garlic , but tonight the special- striped bass in a light tomato sauce with lots of little neck clams & 4 jumbo shrimp.
The veal chop is also wonderful, as are most of the dishes.
Every table is served a little mini antipasto of salami, cheese, eggplant componata, bruschetta, celery sticks & carrots and of course, delicious bread & breadsticks.
There are about a dozen of so great places such as this on the Island- I have a list of 50 in the Tri-State but in my top ten o the Island, this is one of them.
I will do a post on the others this week.
Enjoy! (do make a reservation on Fridays & saturday)
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