Impasto (San Carlos)

Terun and iTalico are two well established restaurants in Palo Alto (which we still haven’t tried - too many interesting restaurants, too little stomach space). The restaurant owners recently opened a new place not too far from our house - Impasto https://www.impastosancarlos.com/ . And so it was finally time to try one of the restaurants from that group and it didn’t disappoint. Very high quality of the dishes with good pasta and pizza (Neapolitan style). Something to add to our restaurant list for repeats.


Eggplant polpette, taleggio, truffle cream


Fava bean & broccoli rabe, peperoncino calabrese, garlic, grana padano cheese, evoo


Fritelle, fried pizza dough, stracciatella de burrata, prosciutto di Parma Rovagnati 24 months


Rigatoni, grana padano, beef-pork ragu


Calamarata, basil pesto, octopus, roasted potato, grana padano


Capricciosa, san marzano tomato sauce, fior di latte mozzarella, prosciutto cotto, artichoke, cremini mushrooms, olive


Caramel sea salt, caramel gelato, sea salt, evoo


Torta al pistacchio, pan di spagna, pistacchio & ricotta mousse, mixed berries

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Even so Impasto https://www.impastosancarlos.com isn’t too far from us, it somehow flies a bit under the radar for us and we don’t visit it too often. It really nicely captures Italian food with VPN-certified pizza, house-made pasta etc. Really nice dinner last night

Fava Bean & Broccoli Rabe - peperoncini calabrese, garlic, grana pandano cheese, evoo

Fritelle - fried pizza dough, stracciatella di burrata, prosciutto crudo 24mo

San Danielle pizza - prosciutto crudo 24mo, mozzarella, cremini mushrooms, arugula, shaved grana padano, truffle oil

Tagliolini alla ‘Nduja - homemade egg pasta, calabrian ‘nduja, splash of tomato sauce, guanciale, crispy grana padano crumbles

Lemon Panna Cotta - berries coulis

Tiramisu - mascarpone, espresso, lady finger

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