Anonymous
Post 06/16/2024 22:41     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The only traditional Italian restaurants in this area closed permanently. One was in McLean, and the other one in Reston.
Sorry I can’t recommend any place at this time.


Which one was in McLean?


Cafe Oggi
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2024 22:27     Subject: Re:D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
Pistone's Italian Inn in Seven Corners, Falls Church. Complete with awesome FBI/mafia history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D._Pistone
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2024 22:22     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
Anonymous wrote:Not sure what you mean by “traditional”— are you saying Tosca doesn’t count? Maybe I’m Eddie Cano is what you are looking for?


Tosca was the first place I thought of!
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2024 22:16     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
Sfoglina is amazing but I would consider it upscale, modern Italian, not “traditional” red-sauce Italian.
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2024 18:28     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
i Ricchi? It’s Tuscan. I don’t know if it what you would consider classic, but I think it’s pretty good. They do have at least one or two pork dishes.
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2024 17:30     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
Acqua al 2 in Annapolis. Used to be in DC. Worth the drive.
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2024 17:08     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
Anonymous wrote:The only traditional Italian restaurants in this area closed permanently. One was in McLean, and the other one in Reston.
Sorry I can’t recommend any place at this time.


Which one was in McLean?
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2024 14:33     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
Landini Brothers in Alexandria
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2024 14:15     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
Alfios (low)
Il canale (high]
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2024 14:12     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
We like. Piero's Corner in Oak Hill near Dulles
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2024 13:38     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
What is classic versus modern Italian?
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2024 13:46     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
FILOMENA! It’s a Time Machine to 1992. I have no idea if the food is authentically Italian or good by OP’s standards. But the whole place is such a trip. I have a good time.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2024 13:44     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
Anonymous wrote:Thank you for the suggestions. I don't know a lot about classic cooking styles. I'm looking for pork dishes and, specifically, porchetta al forno. I think that is found all over Italy but originated in central Italy.
-- OP


Probably best bet to find this in Little Italy in Baltimore as suggested by a PP. And yes, get the cannolis at Vaccaros after.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2024 11:17     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
I’ve never been there but people live Bonaroti in Vienna
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2024 11:14     Subject: D.C.: Please suggest a "classic" Italian restaurant (i.e., not "modern Italian")
Thank you for the suggestions. I don't know a lot about classic cooking styles. I'm looking for pork dishes and, specifically, porchetta al forno. I think that is found all over Italy but originated in central Italy.
-- OP