Spaghetti al limone is sneaky best dish there
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Spaghetti al limone at Felix is fantastic - well worth getting. But the best one in LA (the US?) is at Angelini Osteria.
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My favorite dishes there have been the sfincione and the fried artichokes.
Thanks all for a most successful dinner.
We managed 2 sfincione, misticanza, gamberi, tagliatelle, agnolotti, linguine al limone, orecchiette, tagliata di manzo, strawberry & crème fraîche gelato and torta di cioccolato.
If I had ordered all of @PorkyBelly suggestions, we’d have exploded before the meal was over, but the recs were spot on!
The animals at the table killed the first sfincione so a second was needed. It still amazes me how fluffy and light it is while retaining such a great crisp exterior! Sopping up the prawn sauce is the only way to go.
Each of the pastas is a revelation. Perfectly al dente, super tasty sauces that have plenty of restrained complexity…every single one was killer. While most at our table loved the orecchiette and tagliatelle, I agree with @Thesalmonking and @Loaxley about the limone being the runaway sleeper hit. The pastas may have been so good that my palate can recall how exactly they tasted now.
The meat eaters also raved about the ribeye cap…more specifically the super crispy fried potatoes that accompanied the steak. I’ll politely disagree because the pasta was the star of show.
Another great surprise was the strawberry & crème fraîche gelato. While not Harry’s Berries, the berries likely came from Tamai as it was very tasty. I preferred the gelato to the flourless chocolate cake we also got.
Service was terrific. We celebrated a friend’s birthday and they placed us in the back room where we had plenty of space and ample opportunity to chat. The team took great care of us and helped us select a wine to pair with what we’d ordered. Cocktails were also superb…if this was closer to us and reservations are slightly easier to get than me stalking Resy at 10AM a week before, we’d come visit more often.
Didn’t get all the photos…but it was all delicious!
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Gamberi
Suppli in bianco
arborio rice, branzi, prosciutto cotto & pecorino romano DOP
Dama bianca
shaved fennel, pink lady apple, celery, etc
Burrata e cachi
jj lone daughter ranch hachiya persimmons & burrata di bufala
Funghi
chanterelles, morels
Lasagna (off-menu)
Linguine al limone
Casunziei
Funghi risotto
Costata alla fiorentina
60-day dry aged prime rib eye, patate fritte
Tiramisu
Cranberry & Pomegranate Sorbet
Fior de lattte(?) gelato w/ tangerine(??)
Poached pear & polenta cake
Winter berry crostata
Place still slaps. Highlights:
- Gamberi
- Dama bianca
- Persimmons
- Pizza
- Lasagna (!!! - probably better than Colapasta’s, which was previously the best I’d ever had)
- Linguine
- Tiramisu
- Crostata (competitive with the best pies I’ve ever had)
Skip:
- Casunziei - kinda hard to make out any of the internals
- Rib eye - good meat and obviously aged, but not much funk, and not really worth the stomach space
- Poached pear - nothing on Shige-san’s, alas
Was there for a friend’s birthday, so we got some complementary prosecco on the house (could tell it was quality, though none of us are particularly sparkling wine drinkers). ~$180/head after tip & tax. If we’d skipped the steak it would’ve been $140 and probably still enough food.
I haven’t been since my first two vists in the first year of its opening. Enjoyed this meal a lot more than my one visit to Mother Wolf a couple years ago.
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That’s high praise (ever since eating Colapasta’s, I generally refused to eat lasagna anywhere else now). If the lasagna was off-menu, is it something you have to request ahead? And, if you don’t mind me asking, how much was it?
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My friend either oversaw or overhead it at another table, and then just asked our waitress about it - didn’t need to order ahead. Alas, don’t remember how much it was, but I’d guess it would have been somewhere in the range of the other “standard” pastas ($30-50).
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