This past Wednesday was the Taste of Little Italy event, celebrating the restaurants of Little Italy by providing ticket holders with small tastes of the food from each participating restaurant. Event-goers were given a choice with their tickets: buy the North or South "routes", which entailed a different path of restaurants, or buy the entire package, and get to taste at over 30 different restaurants!
We had tickets to take the North Route, which included many restaurants that I was excited to try, as well as some favorites of mine.
Another relative newcomer to Little Italy is Juniper and Ivy, the newest enterprise for chef Richard Blais. The sample was a pork meatball served with a sweet pepper topping. Simple, but quite tasty.
Another treat was found at Puerto La Boca, an Argentinian steak house. Serving up garlicky Argentinian style steaks and chorizo sausage, and samples of Malbec (obviously I did not partake).
Mona Lisa got into the party with a Tony Bennett-esque singer and cheese and Italian meat samples.
The last stop was for dessert! Cafe Zucchero was serving mini cannolis -- one of my favorite desserts! Across the street was Caffe Italia, serving freshly made cappucinos! We took our cannolis to enjoy with the coffee (which we sadly didn't finish -- sleep is good, and these would have kept us up all night!). The coffee and cannolis were a perfect end to such a nice evening.
Definitely one of the best "Taste of" events that I've experienced, and a great peek into some of the menus of this exciting neighborhood.
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