Piccolicious!
Monday, February 16, 2009
*crickets*
I’m still eating, really! I’ve just been talking more succinctly about it on Twitter. (Ironically, I started Twittering shortly after I started this blog. Heh.)
Micha came up to visit this weekend, though, and he dragged a crowd of us to a restaurant he hasn’t been able to stop talking about: Picco. Shaula and I got the grilled cheese panini (oh melty mix of cheddar, gruyere, and taleggio, my heart); Hyoun and Micha both got the house mac and cheese (same three cheeses plus gorgonzola); Melissa and Adam split the Alsatian pizza, and Cathy got the two-pork pasta special. We all kept stealing from each others’ plates. It was one of the best comfort-food meals I’ve had out in a long, long time.
And then we topped it off with their ice cream! They scoop their ice cream and sorbet generously – most of us ordered the samplers, expecting the promised espresso-cup scoops. Hah. Best pear sorbet I’ve had in awhile, true in flavor and texture and aroma and that slight sweetness; the chocolate sorbet was dark and potent and rich, and the malt chip ice cream balanced that nicely. Also, between the Lily Allen and Regina Spektor background music, as Hyoun said, it was as though they’d plugged my iPod into their stereo.
Picco. 513 Tremont St, Boston. 617.927.0066.