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Evelyn's Big Italian Pizzeria

Evelyn's Big Italian Pizzeria

704 Texas St, Fairfield, United States

Pizza • Pasta • Lunch • Italian


"east coast ingenial. eating here today was one of the best culinary surprises I had for a long time. the decoration of the place is very east coast of fiiliale cut off from ital and randomly with baseball, military and police and fire pics, along with sport toys and the always present picture of tony soprano, al pacino, all the godfather occupation and many other Italian icons scream. many places try to copy this, but it simply comes as a cheesy. this place gives the very authentic feeling. it brings me back to some of my favorite places in baltimore, philly, providence or even north jersey. now the important part that eat. I will first throw out the fact that I didn't try the pizza. I feel like you do that, it's juicy to pass on the dead for the first time when I dive here, but I wanted pasta. I had the fetuciini cosa nostra. this is a wet, thin sauce with fresh tomato-choed, basilikum and garlic. That was so damn good. the basilikum was very forward with hard tastes of the tomatoes and made the garlic subtle and background music, but made it noticeable. it was so good. it could have been made before an hour in my garden. remember that this is not a Tuscan or Sicilian style. this is a new York/New jersey pizza and pasta shopfront. they make a lot of their own ingredients, but it is not artisan inspired cuisine this is just up gravy and makkaroni, which are so hard to find past I-95. I'll update this as soon as I have the pizza. the only change that I would make is the music. You need classic rock on such a location floyd, boston, eddie money or, I dare to say, travel."

Beretta

Beretta

1199 Valencia St., San Francisco 94110, 94110-3020, San Andreas, United States

Bars • Pizza • Italian • Offers Delivery


"Located in the Mission District where Last Supper Club used to be, this hip Italian restaurant draws big crowds on weekends. My friends and I reserved a six-top and were seated in their dark, dungeon-like room downstairs. It took several minutes for our eyes to become accustomed to the dim lighting and actually see our menus. Seating was interesting, half of us sat in regular chairs and the other half sat in an old church pew. When I’m in the mood, I enjoy cocktails with either Grey Goose or Belvedere vodka. But our two servers made it abundantly clear that the bartenders turn up their noses at vodka which is apparently inferior to rums, gins and the like for mixed drinks. They said vodka doesn’t do anything to enhance those kinds of drinks. That explains why they only had several vodkas and each were infused with weird flavors like basil. I tried a highly recommended gin drink, (I hate gin but one of our servers insisted that it was worth a try), and traded it in for a glass of red wine. Then I tried to focus on the food. Our group shared a bunch of dishes, including roasted beets with ricotta salata which was my girlfriend’s favorite, and meatballs in tomato sauce which were a little too soft but had good flavor. It came with a couple slices of grilled bread to sop up the sauce. We also had a proscuitto pizza with tomato, arugula, and mozzarela which had a thin, crispy crust but was just okay. The marinated sardines were very tart which is the way they are supposed to be, but my mouth got really puckery. The salumi platter was nice, as was the saffron risotto with osso bucco which was comforting and rich. We had a couple of espresso-laden desserts to finish the night. Honestly, there are so many other restaurants where I can get a great Italian meal with a nice vodka cocktail and good lighting beyond the bowels of a restaurant. I’ll be back in the Mission soon since I love the overall vibe of that neighborhood, but I don’t think Beretta will be among my stops."