David Hammond wrote:Bacchanalia is still open (I just called); I enjoyed my meal there last February, though I have heard a few negatives about the place voiced on this board.
Yes, of course, I was thinking of the other place that started with 'B-'... Biagio or something... anyway, Baccanalia is still going... Sorry for the confused memory...
Ate at Ignotz a few weeks ago...
I have some friends who live down in that neighbourhood and know the owner of Ignotz' well too. I had a very fine bowl of fettucine with tomatoes and seafood last summer at Ignotz' (with the noodles cooked properly to order witout any special request on my part) but haven't had any other main dishes.
A, isn't the Oakley area also called, oddly, "Heart of Italy"? The name "Little Tuscany" would also apply, as it's largely northern Italians there (or, at least, there used to be).
As I understand it, someone came up with that as a sort of marketing tool to combat the fact that the Taylor Street resaurateurs have started calling Taylor Street 'Little Italy'. In any event, the Oakley neighbourhood did (and to a degree does) have a number of Italian residents from Tuscany, as well as from points further north. Anyway, it's a very nice neighbourhood but it's quite small now.
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Antonius on October 28th, 2011, 10:26 am, edited 1 time in total.
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