all’onda

By grace.g.yang ยท August 28, 2015
Under: American,Dinner,Italian,Italy,My Life,seafood,Union Square



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:

All'onda

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:

All'onda

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

All'onda

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

All'onda

We also ordered the arancini balls with burrata and tomato:

All'onda

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:

All'onda

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

All'onda

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

All'onda

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.

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