The steamed mussels have more punch than usual, cooked in olive oil, garlic, fresh tomatoes, green onions and wine. Then there's the bruschetta. Just when you think you'll never want another slab of bread with oil on it, try Casa Bianca's. The garlic is sauteed and the tomatoes and herbs are chopped fresh for each person who orders it. Caesar salad is done the old-fashioned way, assembled at the table with a raw egg and garlic crushed before your eyes.
Dinner includes a choice of a green salad or minestrone, and for goodness' sake, take the soup.
The main course menu has five kinds of veal, plus rack of lamb, chicken and steak. The pasta menu has many good choices, including gnocchi with Gorgonzola and linguini in white clam sauce that's made from scratch each time. Our table loved the veal scaloppine with lemon, but only liked the pasta with smoked salmon. The salmon was in tiny flakes and was drowned by the tomatoes. Dishes cooked at the table include steak Diane, spaghetti carbonara and veal marsala, cherries jubilee, banana flambe, crepes Suzette and the traditional Italian custard, zabaglione.