Finally – after months of talking about how nice it would be if our neighbourhood had a restaurant we could walk to – someone finally heard our grumbling! Last night we left the car at home and followed sidewalk to a lovely place called Eden Trattoria. We were quickly greeted on the patio by a friendly staffer and taken to a quiet table in the back. While only Chris had a direct view of the water from our table, it was still nice to turn around and see the sun setting over the blue lake.
Our server was scattered but nice and generally efficient. She quickly corrected a problem we had with the bread basket (open butter packets not being to our liking) and we had no further problems.
Chris and I both started with a caesar salad. The lettuce was crunchy and the dressing had a nice consistency, but it lacked that certain zing we both like in this dish. Fresh parmeasan and lemon juice would really help spice this salad up a bit.
For our main course, Chris opted for pizza while I had penne alla vodka. Both dishes were resonably priced and proved to be good value. At about $10 per dish, we each left full and even had leftovers for lunch today. I’ll leave Chris to comment on the pizza (thought it looked and smelled good!) but I can say that the pasta was great. It had the perfect about of bite to it, and the sauce was plentiful but not over powering. The flavour was a nice mix of creamy tomato with that lingering taste of vodka. I’ve had this kind of pasta with additional ingredients such as mushroom or prosciutto – but I much prefer just the sauce and pasta as Eden served up.
The gelato was good – but still not the same as the delightful cones we had in Italy. One day we’ll find it’s match closer to home!
I was excited to see this good little restaurant also offers brunch. As brunch junkies, Chris and I are both looking forward to a new rendition of bacon and eggs – that we can walk to no less!
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