Apparently New Year’s Day is not the best night to eat out. Originally I had wanted to take my friends to this little Italian place I grew up going to. But of course they were closed and we had to come up with Plan B.
Being the responsible people we are, we pulled into a parking lot before pulling up the Yelp app on our iPhones to pick out a new destination.
We landed on Penne Pomodoro. I’ve never been but have heard about it several times so when I scrolled to it we decided that was the place; besides we’d already planned on Italian!
Luckily we all love to share, so we ordered a bunch of different things to try. We started with calamari, but I have to admit, I was still in awe of the Zio Cecio calamari and wasn’t all that impressed with this calamari.
We then ordered a pizza because we wanted to try it and the Pizza Bianca con Prosciutto just sounded so good. It is a white pizza with prosciutto, mozzarella, sautéed mushroom, baby spinach & Parmesan. Told you it sounded delicious, even though I’m not a mushroom fan. And guess what, it was SO good!
I am a sucker for good gnocchi and love to try it when it’s on the menu. So naturally we had to order this. I’ve discovered that I really like gnocchi best in a cream sauce but because of our other menu selection we went with their Pomodoro e basilico sauce. It was a basil and roasted garlic tomato sauce that was that was good.
Our last selection was one of the specials of the day, it was Rigatoni with sausage in a garlic cream sauce. This was amazing! I would say this was my favorite dish of all of them!
Needless to say after this feast, none of us had room for dessert. Guess I’ll save that for next time!
This was the wine we had with our dinner. I’m not sure that a Malbec was the best pairing for this meal but it was quite enjoyable.
Have you been to Penne Pomodoro? I want to go and try out their brunch some time!
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