Zorzi

[Nathan]

Venetian in culinary orientation. but a full restaurant menu, not cichetti.

Its uber-designed in a MOMA sort of way. they'd only been open a couple days so there were the expected forgiveable service flaws. the wine service is still a work in progress (which they rightly admitted from the beginning).....that's to be expected. what wasn't was the relatively paucity of the list. a reasonable selection of Italian bottles but almost nothing by the glass. hopefully that will be remedied.

a scallop app was excellent. they were served with the muscle still attached over a bed of (good) veggies. liked this a lot.

beef tartare with truffle was fine if predictable.

spaghetti with vongole e pomodorini was a good rendition of the classic. ditto for the bigoli with anchovy.

fried gamberini and scallops over polenta was adroitly done.

[Nathan]

oh, I do question whether it will be workable in that location. we'll see.

I'm definitely going back.

Edited August 25, 2008 by Nathan (log)