all’onda

Last week, I met up with three friends that I used to work with at all’onda, a Venetian restaurant in the Union Square neighborhood:

Stephane, Christine, Kristen and myself haven’t seen each other in a long time because Christine moved to the west coast, Kristen had twins, and Stephane and I switched jobs. Luckily, we all love to eat good food so we made an excuse to visit each other when Christine came to town for work. We started with some toast with fontina cheese and apple slices:

As a starter, we tried the roasted carrot salad with ricotta, ginger vinaigrette, and cumin:

And burrata with salsa verde, market apples and grilled sourdough:

We also ordered the arancini balls with burrata and tomato:

The food was all very good; the roasted carrot salad was sweet but had a very good burnt flavor, the burrata had a mix of a lot of different flavors that worked well together, and the arancini was crispy on the outside but had a very good flavor inside.

For our main courses, Christine ordered the tortelli with morels, peas, fava beans and ricotta salata:

Kristen and I both ordered the bucatini, their specialty dish, with smoked uni and spicy breadcrumbs:

And Stephane ordered the rigatoni with aged duck ragu and radicchio:

Each pasta was very well made and we enjoyed it, but I thought the service was too rushed and they ended up coming by multiple times while we were eating to clear our plates even though we still had a lot of food left! The food was good, but there are so many good places in the city that I don’t think it’s special enough to return any time soon.