Category Archives: Food
The rain has finally stopped! It’s time for Spring! Enjoy our new Seasonal Specials menu!
We’re pleased to announce the launch of our Early Spring Seasonal Special Menu! The new menu showcases in-season, fresh and local ingredients such as cauliflower and Dungeness Crab. We’re also featuring artisan meats from Bay Area favorites Zoe’s Meats and Fra’Mani. Enjoy our hearty soup made with heirloom Scarlet Runner Beans on those rainy spring days and evenings. Our “second course” entrees include a wonderful roasted cauliflower risotto and a linguine with fresh Dungeness Crab. For the meat lovers, we have rich braised short ribs served over fettuccine. Try the ribs with a glass or bottle of “un4seen”, our current Artisan Wine. And finally for the “everything goes better with bacon” crowd, we’re pleased to offer a Zoe’s meats bacon sundae with vanilla gelato! That’s right a bacon sundae! Try it and you’ll be back!
For the next several weeks, you can find this menu along with a fixed course tasting menu throughout our restaurants in Northern and Southern California. If you’re feeling adventurous, our Pleasant Hill and San Jose (The Alameda) locations are offering a different seasonal special menu, with items that we are “testing” for future use. If you want to get in on the “testing” or try a different seasonal dish, please visit those locations to see what the Pasta Pomodoro Culinary Team is working on. We hope you enjoy the new dishes as much as we do and look forward to your feedback!
LangeTwins Wine Dinner in Roseville!
If you missed our special wine dinner in November, you have another chance to join us! We will have a casual wine event on January 22nd at our Roseville location near Granite Bay. Please come in anytime after 6:00pm and enjoy the wine dinner at your own pace – meaning when you are ready to move on to your next course, both the food and wine pairing, along with a personal explanation of the wines will be ready. There’s no waiting on anyone. You set the tone for your evening!
Reservations are not required, however if you would like to secure a table in advance, please call (916) 773-4027.
Below is our Winter seasonal menu with the LangeTwins wine pairing:
First Course
Insalata di Cavolini
sauteed sliced brussels sprouts with house-cured pancetta, egg, red onion and aged red wine vinaigrette
2009 Generations Viognier
or
Gnocchi Formaggi
potato dumplings with gorgonzola, fresh Belfiore mozzarella and parmesan
2009 Estate Chardonnay
Second Course
Pollo Saltimbocca
fresh chicken breast with Zoe’s Meats prosciutto, provolone and fresh sage with a porcini mushroom reduction, served with sautéed organic spinach
2007 Culinary Merlot
or
Ossobuco di Maiale
Kurobuta pork shank braised in white wine, served with fettuccine
2008 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Third Course
Spuma di Cioccolato
dark chocolate mousse with raspberry sauce
2006 Icon Midnight Reserve
The Details:
Cost: $36 per person
Where: 3984 Douglas Blvd # 110, Roseville
When: Saturday, January 22, 2011, from 6:00pm until closing
Our winter garden is ready to be harvested… Early Winter Seasonal Specials have arrived!
We’re pleased to announce the launch of our Early Winter Seasonal Special Menu! The new menu showcases in-season, fresh and local ingredients. If you love our Pasta P Brussels Sprouts (“Cavolini”), you will definitely need to try our Insalata di Cavolini with house-cured pancetta, chopped egg, red onion and aged red wine vinaigrette. It’s amazing! For the cold winter days, we’ve introduced our version of Gnocchi Formaggi, which is a little lighter and features mozzarella from Berkeley based Belfiore Cheese Company. Chicken Marsala lovers should try our Pollo Saltimbocca, which is stuffed with provolone and fresh sage and features prosciutto from Petaluma based Zoe’s Meats. It’s sautéed in a porcini mushroom reduction and served with sautéed organic spinach. Many of our regulars will be pleased to know that our Ossobuco di Maiale has returned! Our culinary team has improved on the recipe and we now offer Kurobuta pork shanks. Up to now, the major market for Kurobuta pork was Japan, where taste took priority over fat content. In Japan, Kurobuta pork is prized as much as Kobe beef, but now, local Bay Area and Socal chefs at upscale restaurants have “discovered” this artisanal pork.
For the next several weeks, you can find this menu along with a fixed course tasting menu throughout our restaurants in Northern and Southern California. If you’re feeling adventurous, our Pleasant Hill and San Jose (The Alameda) locations are offering a different seasonal special menu, with items that we are “testing” for future use. If you want to get in on the “testing” or try a different seasonal dish, please visit those locations to see what the Pasta Pomodoro Culinary Team is working on. We hope you enjoy the new dishes as much as we do and look forward to your feedback!
Brunch is now served!
We are excited to announce that our restaurants in Noe Valley, Novato, Pleasant Hill and Santana Row are now serving our famous Italian-styled brunch! Join us every Saturday or Sunday from 10-2 to enjoy our interpretation of classic brunch dishes… Based on guest feedback, more restaurants will follow soon! Enjoy!
Summer is over… Well, it actually never arrived… So, let’s celebrate Fall’s arrival with our new Seasonal Specials!
We’re pleased to announce the launch of our Fall Seasonal Special Menu. The new menu showcases in-season, fresh local ingredients such as organic butternut squash from Riverdog Farms. In addition to Riverdog, we’re also featuring leading local California farmers and food purveyors such as Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Marin French Farms, Zoe’s Meats and Niman Ranch. Our specials reinforce our philosophy that as a locally owned restaurant group, we are investing in ingredients that are grown or produced in California, as often as possible. Our Culinary team appreciates that our guests delight in sampling fresh new modern Italian dishes in addition to indulging in the Pasta Pomodoro favorites!
For the next several weeks, you can find this menu along with a fixed course tasting menu throughout our restaurants in Northern and Southern California. If you’re feeling adventurous, our Pleasant Hill and Camden Park – San Jose locations are offering a different seasonal special menu, with items that we are “testing” for future use. If you want to get in on the “testing” or try a different seasonal dish, please visit those locations to see what the Pasta Pomodoro Culinary Team is working on. We hope you enjoy the new dishes as much as we do and look forward to your feedback!
Our new dessert menu is here…
After many sweet spoonfuls and countless plate scrapings with our Culinary team and Confectioners (it was exhausting but somebody had to do it), we’re pleased to announce our new dessert menu!
Here are some of the highlights of the new menu offerings:
Let’s revisit our archives and honor tradition. Our new Tiramisu with additional delicious chocolate shavings will be a nostalgic experience for some of our long-time, loyal customers. Nevertheless, we’re sure that all of our guests will welcome this homage to our humble beginnings. The mascarpone zabaione, now includes marsala wine, which harkens back to the traditional tiramisu recipes of Italy.
We’re also excited to offer a seasonal dessert that can be found on our Seasonal Specials Menu. Ask your server for more information!
Finally, pull-up a chair and roll-up your sleeves to savor our new and improved whole-milk Ricotta Cheesecake, with amaretti cookie crust and pinoli (“pine nuts”). As a complement, we now include a topping of our scrumptious marinated berries that are also found on our creamy Panna Cotta.
Don’t fret, our tried and true favorites like the Panna Cotta and Dolce Cioccolato are always available along with our artisan sorbetto and gelatos, and non-committal Mini Tiramisu and Affogato.
Yum, yum!
Summer Seasonal Specials Have Arrived!
Earlier this year we decided to redesign our seasonal special program and asked our Culinary Team to be bold and show us their “culinary chops”. We asked and they delivered! As a result we’re pleased to announce the launch of our latest seasonal special menu. The menu showcases in-season, fresh local ingredients such as luscious heirloom tomatoes and succulent strawberries. We’re also featuring leading local California farmers and food purveyors such as Riverdog Farms, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese and Sundance Berry Farms. Our specials reinforce our philosophy that as a locally owned restaurant group, we are investing in ingredients that are grown or produced in California, as often as possible. Our Culinary team appreciates that our guests delight in sampling fresh new modern Italian dishes in addition to indulging in the Pasta Pomodoro favorites!
For the next several weeks, you can find this menu along with a fixed course tasting menu throughout our restaurants in Northern and Southern California. If you’re feeling adventurous, our Pleasant Hill and Camden Park – San Jose locations are offering a different seasonal special menu, with items that we are “testing” for future use. If you want to get in on the “testing” or try a different seasonal dish, please visit those locations to see what the Pasta Pomodoro Culinary Team is working on. We hope you enjoy the new dishes as much as we do and look forward to your feedback!
You asked… We listened… The Pasta Pomodoro culinary team is pleased to announce the return of Farro!
Thank you to all of our loyal guests who provided passionate feedback about their love of farro… We especially loved the farro postcards! Our culinary team has always enjoyed farro, and regularly enjoys preparing farro at home for their kids as well as for our weekly vegetarian nights! Earlier this year, we decided to remove farro from our menu so we could spend a few months improving the “farro experience” at Pasta Pomodoro… We are pleased to reintroduce farro in two new dishes, Insalata di Farro and Farro Risotto… You can also add roasted farro to any pasta or enjoy it as a simple side dish… For those of you who are not familiar with farro, it is considered to be the “Mother of All Grains” and has been a healthy part of Italian cooking for centuries… It is full of nutrients such as folate, vitamin E, potassium and fiber… Long live farro, we look forward to your feedback!
Gourmet Thin Crust Pizza now available at two additional Norcal locations!
Our Pleasant Hill and San Jose (“The Alameda”) restaurants are now offering our Gourmet, Thin Crust Pizzas! Pictured below is our new “Pollo e Pesto” pizza which includes pesto, fresh Belfiore cheese, grilled chicken, Zoe’s Meats crispy bacon and sun-dried tomatoes… Three other restaurants in the Bay Area also offer pizza — Novato, El Cerrito, Bay Meadows (San Mateo)… In Socal, our West Hollywood location offers pizza… Become a Friend of Pasta Pomodoro on Facebook or a Follower on Twitter to receive notification about the arrival of pizza in your favorite Pasta P!
