Amici Restaurant and the Bombolini Wine Bar are located at 326 Broadway. Anne Hardy's Review Heinz Kattenfeld, Austrian by birth, runs the best Italian kitchen in Winnipeg. Amici, lavishly comfortable and expansive, shows what Kattenfeld's gift for planning and zeal for perfection can accomplish. As we've said before, it isn't easy to make a habit of excellence. There's a Tuscan mushroom soup and a fisherman's soup that have become house signatures.
Salads are large, almost too large, but the chevre on toast with pesto is a remarkable dish.
The pastas change from time to time, but they're all clever, especially the linguine with grilled scallops and the Sicilian pasta with capers and goatcheese. Veal is always on the menu, wild boar often is, sometimes with juniper, sometimes with apples and calvados. Dover sole appears whenever it can be bought fresh, sometimes with hollandaise, sometimes en papilote with red cabbage. Most of the desserts are made by Amici's own patissier, but in such a setting a gateau St.-Honore seems disappointing. Why not a dish of wine, head downstairs to Bombolini's where there are at least a dozen, served with a simpler and less expensive menu.