Linguine with sausage comes with the tangy house marinara and four large pieces of charred, fennel-flavored Italian sausage. Veal dishes, a house specialty, are impressive. Veal Monselli comes pounded and tenderly sauteed under a mushroom and zucchini-rich sherry sauce. If you've got room, try the surprisingly light cannoli, fried and filled with sweet custard and rolled in pistachio chips. Note that food portions at La Scarola are shockingly huge.
Appetizers easily serve three.
Pasta servings approximate a pound of noodles. Meat dishes are massive. Everyone leaves not with a dainty doggy bag, but a plastic grocery sack. Just as there's nothing particularly modern on the menu, the decor remains in a time warp. A wall full of photos of buxom blonds is opposite another filled with portraits of ex-Cubs and celebs of the Jerry Vale era.