Some personal favorites from Il Ristorante Vitelli:

Pasta alla Carbonara

Pasta w/garlic and oil (and sometimes tuna or shrimp)

Penne or Ziti w/broccoli and (hot) Italian sausage

Capellini or Linguini w/basil pesto (and sometimes tuna)

Pasta with our House Special tomato sauce (sometimes w/sausage, depending on how ambitious I feel)

Tortellini w/prosciutto or ham, peas, mushrooms, and cream

There are others, but these are my personal favorites. Oh, and let's not forget the garlic bread. Beer and wine are optional, but also very enjoyable. We have a small TV/VCR in the Vitelli kitchen, so I can do my (very) late-night cooking while watching television or a film. I have found, over the years, that it can be virtually impossible for me to watch The Godfather (or its sequels) without wanting to cook (and eat) something! Actually, there are several other movies that fall into this category as well. (For example, I defy anyone to sit through GoodFellas without getting hungry.)

Recipes posted on request. smile

Signor V.

"For me, there's only my wife..."

"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"

"It was a grass harp... And we listened."

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."