Friday, September 21, 2007

Dolce - Dilworth

Italian
$40ish dinner - Pollo Romano, 2 glasses of wine & split gelato sampler

I've been meaning to go here for a while but with so many Italian places in town, it took wanting to try something new to finally get here. I went with a friend for dinner on Thursday night and we sat outside. It's a quaint Italian restaurant where at least the hostess had an accent (which I can only assume was real). It's a white tablecloth kind of place with a small sitting area outside and a larger restaurant inside. Almost everyone was outside this night. I ordered the Pollo Romano - chicken w artichokes, sun dried tomatoes in a white wine sauce. It was awesome! They served it with oven roasted potatoes and a vegetable medley. Whatever it was, it was some good stuff. They served bread, of course with the white bean thing similar to Luce and Toscana. The wine was nothing I was familiar with but the cute waiter helped me pick something out and I enjoyed it. I still have no idea what it was but it was good. For dessert, we split a sampler of three gelatos: vanilla, chocolate and hazelnut. It's not quite as good as being there, but it's a lot better than D&D's gelato. The vanilla and chocolate were really good, the hazelnut was okay but I'm not a normal fan of it anyway. The setting is a little weird driving up (it's next to the Roly Poly) but you didn't feel like it once you stepped inside. It's definitely on the higher side of local Italian but I'll definitely go back. Probably a good place to bring the parents.

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