Poll - Which Italian restaurant would you like to see at The Villages at Rio Rancho? (Albuquerque: metro area, businesses)

[fatwhale]

bring back carrabba's!!

[ABQSunseeker]

I think the Albuquerque metro area is underserved with good, authentic Italian restaurants. The last thing we need is more Italian chain restaurants with their mediocre food. And I say this even liking Buca di Beppo--I take it for what it is and enjoy. But bring on some good non-chain Italian restaurants with real Italian regional specialties. Most Italians would probably refuse to eat at the Olive Garden.

[bradly]

How about Buca, enough with local.
The tiramisu from Buca is amazing! so is the chicken alfredo.. this italian knows best

We also could use a gordon biersch and a Cheesecake factory (Non-italian)

[karmathecat]

Cheesecake Factory is not going to happen.
Gordon Biersch is just another boring chain that happens to have semi-decent beer, but RR already has Turtle Mountain/Fat Squirrel which is excellent beer.

You're Italian? What is tera musa? And just ask for fettucine Alfredo in Italy...they'll either roll their eyes or laugh their asses off.

[ABQSunseeker]

Huh?
Tiramisu, of course, very Italian---Venetian in origin.
And it is a restaurant in Rome that claims it invented fettucine Alfredo. I ate there just last year and ordered it.

[ABQSunseeker]

Alfredo alla Scrofa is the name of the restaurant. What could be more Italian than that?

[karmathecat]

If he's Italian, he should know how to spell tiramisu ( he's since corrected his original butchering, where he referred to "terra musa" )

The dish you had in Rome is not the stuff you get here at chain restaurants in the US, it's not a goopy thick cream sauce, it's a simple dish of fettucine, a small amount of cream, butter and cheese ( not that there's anything wrong with that ) but there's no comparison. But outside of one restaurant that made it famous in Rome and a dozen or so imitation places in touristy areas, it's not considered a real "Italian" dish in Italy.

If you edit your posts, but do not put a reason for editing, then they don't show as edited....that's new.

[ABQSunseeker]

No you're wrong, fettucine Alfredo is considered Italian and it is very commonly offered in Italy, especially in Rome at numerous restaurants. I don't go to touristy restaurants when I have the choice. Marcella Hazan, one of the most foremost Italian cookbook writers offers the recipe for Fettuccine all'Alfredo in her cookbook, The Classic Italian Cook Book (on page 130).

The dish is considered famous and offered in Italian restaurants throughout the world, whether or not it is well executed.

I think you are giving inaccurate information here. No one in Italy is going to "roll their eyes or laugh their asses off" when you order this dish.

[karmathecat]

We're going to have to agree to disagree. My personal experience has been that this dish is almost exclusively served in Italian-American restaurants in the US, and tourist restaurants in Rome. Maybe your experience was different.
My boss, and several co-workers are Italian, and they do find some of the "Italian" dishes that are common in the US to be odd or amusing.
I did ask my Parma born boss if there was a true northern Italian dish that is the basis for F.A., I will let you know what he says.

My impression was that it would be like asking for sweet and sour pork in China.

[bradly]

Originally Posted by karmathecat

Cheesecake Factory is not going to happen.
Gordon Biersch is just another boring chain that happens to have semi-decent beer, but RR already has Turtle Mountain/Fat Squirrel which is excellent beer.

You're Italian? What is tera musa? And just ask for fettucine Alfredo in Italy...they'll either roll their eyes or laugh their asses off.

Its not going to happen?

First off, I'm first to know if it happens hun, I'm a city planner...
Plus, it might happen in Albuquerque. Not Rio Rancho.

Tera Musa? caught that huh. I dont ever need to post a reason. Thats my business that I dont know how to spell it. Not yours dear.

And believe me I know, my family has a place in Italy, just went 2 months ago... I go about 4 times a year.