Girardi

What I should really do here is just say, this place has the best pasta in the city, and leave it there. Period. Full stop. Girardi is not a huge space - there's room for maybe twenty people in the front, maybe not quite, plus an area for a few more in the back. It's comfortable, and decked out, as you can see, in Italian flag colors. Some of the best rosemary and olive oil focaccia I've had since moving here. Pappardelle with an osso buco ragú. Simply spectacular. Perfectly made and cooked pasta and one of the best ragús of the type I've had. Delicate ravioli are stuffed with calves' brains and swiss chard, and served up in a chive and sage butter sauce. Delicious! A superb eggplant parmigiano, and roasted mushrooms over scamorza - smoked mozzarella. A classic lasagna emiliana - simply a wow. Beautiful meat sauce layered with the pasta, and than a gorgeous, thick, browned crust of cheeses. We all agreed that it's some of the best pasta, and other dishes, we've had in an Italian restaurant here in town. Certainly enough for me to move the place into my top five Italians!