North Italia
Uptown’s BLVD Place is now home to this modern restaurant boasting scratch-made Italian foodstuffs that are well worth a visit. Its self-proclaimed love letter to Italy -- which includes light and airy pizzas, scamorza-studded arancini, and heavenly ribbons of house-made tagliatelle -- had us at "hello." No wait, it had us at "ciao" -- because that’s cleverer and stuff.
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Don’t knock BLVD Place just because it’s an import from restaurant group Fox Restaurant Concepts. North tends to incorporate all things local, from farm-fresh eggs, meats, and produce to freshly baked bread from Kraftsmen Baking. It also emphasizes scratch-made dishes, with the menu reading like the sweetest love letter to Italy via aromatic pizzas, hefty hoagies crammed with rosemary ham and spices, scamorza-studded Arancini, and heavenly ribbons of house-made Anolini tossed in blistered tomatoes and shredded Grana Padano. Round things out with Truffled Garlic Bread and girthy noodles simmered in a seafood blend (think poached fish, shrimp and calamari). This contemporary destination may be a tad trendier than your old-school red sauce joint, but in this case, it’s plenty welcome.
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