Pizza and pasta are the specialties at Palio. But the menu also has big sandwiches with funny names like Soccer Mom and Battle Ax, chicken, seafood, veal and nightly specials. It's difficult to refrain from eating too much bread and dip before the appetizer arrives. We've ordered three big, soft and moist crab balls, deep-fried and served with mustard sauce. They're so good H.H. is starting to forget about his disappointment with the wine.
Entrees here are never ordinary, and never skimpy.
Everything is made to order and sometimes I think they jazz it up a bit, adding a little extra. Another night we seemed to get olives, nice big black and green pitted olives, on or in everything. Palio's best-selling pasta, which we haven't tried, is rigatoni with spinach, roasted walnuts and gorgonzola cream. We can heartily recommend, though, the linguine with shrimp, tomatoes and those big black olives. It would be fun to try all 19 pastas, from the classics like linguine with meatballs to rigatoni with zucchini, onions and aged provolone and cheese ravioli with spinach in garlic butter.