[Update - Closed and is now Valentino's Lounge as of 2009]
Another rarity...a night alone!
After the Philippine Independence Day Festival, we dropped off TC at my parents to spend the night. We finally watched "Knocked Up" (more on that in a later post). Now that was a pretty funny movie! I love Judd Apatow and his cast of regulars! Back to this post! Bert & I had errands to accomplish as well. We also checked out Taste of Italy (billed as "in Eastlake", but it's really in the Otay Ranch neighborhood) in eastern Chula Vista. I had already been there several times with my co-workers but only for lunch. So, dinner out was in order. Here's my green salad. I ordered it with no dressing but with two slices of lemon on the side. Do you see the lemons? Well, the server squeezed it on the salad. It was okay at first, but got too sour towards the end!
Bert had clam chowder (it was that or minestrone) for his soup starter. Now this was good! It was creamy but not heavy, with tiny diced potatoes and meaty clam piece. The fresh herbs were also a nice touch
This was our bread. I was expecting the regular bread they normally serve (I was thinking of my lunch experiences here) which looks different and comes with butter. This was what we got instead. The crust had a nice crunch, but nothing spectacular.
Being a creature of habit, I ordered the carciofi (this was in one of my previous posts) but with shrimp this time. Same pasta - linguine ($14.95 -+ $4.95 extra for the shrimp ---that makes it $1.00 a shrimp! They should put more shrimp!). Nice presentation! Bert was surprised that I liked the sauce because I'm not a fan of blue cheese (it had gorgonzola in it). I could only finish half and planned to save the rest for TC the next day.
Bert got the canneloni (forgot the price) which he thoroughly enjoyed and finished!
It's nice to have Taste of Italy close by, but I would like to stop by Bacione's in Hillcrest again!
Another rarity...a night alone!
After the Philippine Independence Day Festival, we dropped off TC at my parents to spend the night. We finally watched "Knocked Up" (more on that in a later post). Now that was a pretty funny movie! I love Judd Apatow and his cast of regulars! Back to this post! Bert & I had errands to accomplish as well. We also checked out Taste of Italy (billed as "in Eastlake", but it's really in the Otay Ranch neighborhood) in eastern Chula Vista. I had already been there several times with my co-workers but only for lunch. So, dinner out was in order. Here's my green salad. I ordered it with no dressing but with two slices of lemon on the side. Do you see the lemons? Well, the server squeezed it on the salad. It was okay at first, but got too sour towards the end!
Bert had clam chowder (it was that or minestrone) for his soup starter. Now this was good! It was creamy but not heavy, with tiny diced potatoes and meaty clam piece. The fresh herbs were also a nice touch
This was our bread. I was expecting the regular bread they normally serve (I was thinking of my lunch experiences here) which looks different and comes with butter. This was what we got instead. The crust had a nice crunch, but nothing spectacular.
Being a creature of habit, I ordered the carciofi (this was in one of my previous posts) but with shrimp this time. Same pasta - linguine ($14.95 -+ $4.95 extra for the shrimp ---that makes it $1.00 a shrimp! They should put more shrimp!). Nice presentation! Bert was surprised that I liked the sauce because I'm not a fan of blue cheese (it had gorgonzola in it). I could only finish half and planned to save the rest for TC the next day.
Bert got the canneloni (forgot the price) which he thoroughly enjoyed and finished!
It's nice to have Taste of Italy close by, but I would like to stop by Bacione's in Hillcrest again!
3 comments:
Ohhh...boo :( Every time I visit your blog, I get hungry!!! LOL! That pasta looks sooooooooooo good!!! I haven't had any kind of cheesy pasta with shrimp in ages!!
I can't wait to hear about "Knocked Up"! I saw the previews on TV and it looks funny! I heard there's some controversy about the movie since there's a lady who wrote a book by the same title AND claims that the story was stolen from her. Apparently much of what was in her book was in the movie! Interesting!
Wow CC, those photos came out great. Taste of Italy looks quite tasty.
hi jack
it's alright - good to have a neighborhood restaurant around.
chrissy - the deleted scenes of 'knocked up' on youtube are funnier than what was IN the movie. check out the clip 'dr kuni goes wild' for the out-takes. that definitely WASN'T in the movie but should have been! the guy who plays dr. kuni is actually a doctor AND comedian in real life.
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