Originally posted by bajajazz
Being from San Francisco and married to a dago whose family originally hailed from Pompei, I'm admittedly a bit of a snob when it comes to Italian
cooking. We twice tried the branch of Milano when it was at the Mall and it was ghastly, pastas like cardboard and sparsely sauced with something so
non-descript it doesn't bear remembering. Because of the horrible food served there we've never tried the restaurant at its incarnation downtown on
Esquero. If I am confusing ownership responsibility between these two places I sincerely apologize.
My main criticism of Italian food as it's prepared in La Paz however, at the Milano or anywhere else, is that there's too much concentration on pastas
and not enough on other Italian dishes. I'd kill for a good veal dish -- veal with a lemon sauce, or a good veal parmigian served with a side of
pasta and followed by a small garden salad or preceded by a cup of decent minestrone.
It's no fun for us to walk into a restaurant and waddle out, we regard food as something to sustain life, not end it prematurely. What we'd like to
see is a reasonably sized and reasonably priced Italian meal that is well-prepared but simple, one in which pasta is not the entree item. We long ago
wearied of dinner at La Pazta because their best non-pasta entrees were dropped from the menu -- and also because the prissy attitudes of the
wait-staff got to be a bit much.
By the way -- and off-subject -- wouldn't it improve this board if the most recent posts were put at the top of the thread, rather than at the bottom?
It's time-consuming to read a half-dozen posts before realizing they were written six months or a year ago.  |
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)by the time you get to the last post, you may have forgotten what the subject is, considering the usual immaterial
bantering .
