Recommend your favorite Italian restaurant!

[Anonymous]

Another vote for Pasta Plus in Laurel for basic, no frills, homey Italian.

On the fancier side, I really like Bibiana.

[Anonymous]

Dino
Bibiana
Fiola

[Anonymous]

Obelisk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Ummm, my daughter and I aren't connected at the hip. She is moving to NYC, not me. I have no idea of what restaurants are there nor does she. That is why I asked OP which one she liked there.

Again, I'm not my DD. I like Ristorante Piccolo and Paper Moon and think Filomenas and Il Canale are terrible. That is my 2 cents. You may differ...it's a free country. But, don't assume someone's dd is just like them...we're not alike.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dd is moving to NYC -- and she said she couldn't find a good Italian restaurant there...where did you go?

In Georgetown, we like Ristorante Piccolo and Paper Moon across the street. Both have good food. We also like I Ricchi in Dupont Circle. I don't know suburban restaurents here sorry.

She can't find good Italian in NYC, and yet you think Piccolo and Paper Moon are good? I don't even know where to begin. Your perception of what is "good" Italian food is completely backwards. Piccolo and Paper Moon are horrific tourist-trap fleabags - perhaps the only worse Italian food in DC is found at the execrable Filomena's. Seriously, people, it's not 1995 anymore. (On a broader note, you can count the good restaurants in Georgetown on one hand, with fingers left over.)

OP, sadly, there's very little good Italian in DC. Dino's is fine, and I remember liking Notte Benne in Foggy Bottom years ago - don't know if it's still good. Palena is high-end and very good, Palena Cafe is casual and very good as well. And the newish Maple in Columbia Heights is good (though it has a small menu).

As an Italian, I am not going to give you any recommendations. Your taste is so bad I refuse to grant you awareness of any good options. Stick to the crap you've been going to or whatever bland food ignorant twits eat.

[Anonymous]

Fabio Trabocchi is opening a new restaurant next week at 1099 NY Ave called Casa Luca. Seems like it will be a more casual alternative to Fiola.

[Anonymous]

Olive Garden

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fabio Trabocchi is opening a new restaurant next week at 1099 NY Ave called Casa Luca. Seems like it will be a more casual alternative to Fiola.

Why would people go all the way out there for Italian, when we have a Chuck E. Cheese in town?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Olive Garden

Ha ha. Why not Panera?

[Anonymous]

In NYC, go to the bronx, to Arthur Ave.

[Anonymous]

Tosca and Fiola.

Dino is fine enough.

[Anonymous]

Got food poisioning at Dino - avoid.