Still, H.H. is fussing about the wine. No one else has ordered a bottle of wine. The prices are too high. The 1994 Merryvale Hillside cabernet, that lowest-price California cabernet, goes well with our dinners, but H.H. is feeling guilty. Maybe I should have ordered the Lohr merlot.
Tiramisu often is called the Italian trifle.
But Franco's tiramisu is much lighter than a trifle. One of his team of cooks, Dennis Mattozzi, makes it fresh each morning. The flavors of espresso, chocolate, mascarpone cheese, lady fingers and Italian liqueur meld while it's refrigerated until dinner. Surely something this good can't be bad for you. We've returned to Franco's since that night, and have never been disappointed in the food.