At the beginning of the summer, Miss Niss was invited to experience the menu at Piattini Wine Cafe, located on Newbury Street on Boston. I knew my answer immediately. Did I want to indulge in wine and cheesy plates of pasta? Absolutely. Should I wait until after my wedding when the “diet” was over so […]
Tag Archives: Italian
Graffiato – Washington, DC
Last weekend was a good weekend. Two of A-Tooch’s obsessions made an appearance — Syracuse basketball and Top Chef. After the big Syracuse win, BF and I went searching for a celebratory dinner in the barren wasteland known as the area near the Verizon Center in DC. Enter: Top Chef contestant Mike Isabella’s Graffiato. Two […]
Holiday Gluttony
The end of December is a time for gluttony. TFAW are always willing to join in the trend. Here are just a few shots of Christmas at the Tooch household… plus post-Christmas at the extended Tooch family household in New Hampshire… and everything else along the way. Vanilla bean and coconut bourbon cake – an […]
Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria – New Haven
OK New Englanders: you may have heard of Frank Pepe’s legendary pizza in New Haven, CT, but A-Tooch had not. Until this past weekend, that is. Why would a New Yorker need to know anything about “famous” pizza outside of the city? On our way back from snowboarding in Vermont, the bf suggested we check […]
Eat Here Now.
As a tribute to her soon-to-be former neighborhood, A-Tooch posts her final recommendation on good eats in the FiDi before she moves uptown tomorrow: Harry’s Italian Pizza Bar located at 2 Gold St. (home of the former Gold Street Diner which I loved, but apparently no one else did because it closed) is home to […]
Even The Italian Food Connoisseur Likes This One!
A-Tooch has been talking a lot about Italian food lately, eh? Notice a theme? Oh yes, this is because she is Italian and loves Italian food. Needless to say, it’s very rare to find a reasonably priced, delicious Italian restaurant in NYC that meets certain standards. Even Little Italy can’t compare when you’ve been eating […]