It just took a little imagination to turn the traffic on nearby Snowden River Parkway into a street scene on New York's stylish Central Park West, especially with the trees outside wrapped in little white lights. We loved the sleek, modern ambience of this restaurant and the admirable service we received. We loved the jazz pianist and saxophonist. We wish we could have loved the food more, because what was good was very good. John Muncoso and his partners, John Lipirini, Bill Munn, Jim Eagan and Vince Guida, opened their Columbia restaurant nine years ago, and four years ago launched another in Fells Point.
Homemade pasta is their specialty.
It may be hard to imagine ravioli and spaghetti as ethereal, cloudlike, magical. The homemade pasta for the ravioli was rolled as thin as paper. Inside was a lovely cheese filling with the sharp accent of fine Parmesan. The simple side of homemade spaghetti that came with our veal Marsala was so delicate, it was a revelation. This is the kind of pasta that makes you want to book tickets for Florence or Rome.