Allen Prunty wrote:

> * To: rosie
>
> *> Hi Lou, OG has some ok stuff, but it is not Italian, I did have a
> *> pasta and seafood dish recently, it was fine, spagetti and mussels and
> *> shrimp *in garlic and oil. Not much they can do to that. Salad is
> *> pretty good, and Yeah, I like the hot bread. Oh almost forgot, toss
> *> some hot peppers on the pasta!
>
> Well not "authentic" but they definately are Italian inspired... which is
> "Italian" to most consumers.


Hmmm...so it's kinda like Mendelsohn's 4th Symphony, eh...???

;-p


* We do have a
restaurant that is a national chain
> called Bucca De Beppo (Joe's Basement in Italian) that, to me, is closer to how
> my granny cooks.


The Buca by me (Chicago north side) closed, we used to go there for
birthday dinners. The grub is served family style, plus which some of
the gang is vegan, so it served it's purpose. Not great, but
acceptable. I liked the fried calamari actually, and you could get
out of there with plenty of food and drinks for around $30.00 per
person, which is reasonable (some of the crowd would be so sozzled
anyways that the food part didn't matter). We could all walk to it,
too, I miss it a bit actually, the corny decor was fun. I read last
year that Buca was retrenching, don't know how they are doing now.
This one we went to was always packed, even on a winter week night...


--
Best
Greg