Petrucci

An old-​fashioned, family-​run business. My awesome hotel guy, Alberto at Hotel Centro, suggested this restaurant and told us to «ask for Sergio» (what do we look like, VIPs in jeans?) What an experience we had!
We arrived around 8:00 pm and the restaurant was mostly empty and we decided to just load it up and make it a huge, multi-​course affair. I even ate the bread basket and it was divine — thick and fluffy and all different types of breads accompanied with OO/​V of course. We started with a caprese salad and a bowl of mussels. The buffalo mozz was soft and fresh, the plate enough for three to share, and the bowl of mussels was absolutely divine — this came in a perfectly-​seasoned tomato broth.
Next up was the pasta course — cheese tortellini in a creamy white sauce and mushroom ravioli — there must have been six different kinds of mushrooms on the plate. And when you cut into a homemade ravioli there were mushrooms in it — not some stupid ricotta-​based filler like you get from pre-​made raviolis (I’m looking at you, shitty US restaurants). Everything was so delicious we lost our heads and ate every bite and when the main course came I could only stomach about three bites and we had to wrap up the rest to go, which was a veal steak and a saltimbocca — both came with salad on the plate, both cut or pounded very thin — not like eating a steak in the US at all (of course slabs of cow are where the US shines), but all flavors were delicious and I wished I could have had more at the time (leftovers are just not the same. Granted they made the best sandwich made of leftovers I’ve ever had!)
I was so full you could roll me down the street — we had to skip dessert, unfortunately. But Petrucci — highly recommended.
And very good, non-​intrusive service, friendly staff, very accomodating. Nice people.