Valentine’s Day Dinner
Make like Lady and the Tramp and share some Tagliatelle twisted with bolognese at Monello, the chic Italian restaurant located in the heart of Little Italy. Similarly to Bencotto, they will be offering a special Valentine’s Day a la carte only menu on Friday, February 14 and a Valentine’s Day three-course prix fix menu, on February 12, 13, 15 and 16 for $40 a person. Options will include Panzerotti Al Tartufo, fried mini calzones stuffed with mozzarella, shiitake mushrooms and white truffle, Gnocchi di Brasato, homemade large potato dumplings filled with braised beef in a parmesan cream sauce with poppy seeds, and Tagliatelle Nere, squid ink fettuccine in a spicy pink tomato sauce with shrimp. Choose to opt-out of the fixed menu and go for what they’re known for: the cheese wheel pasta of the week, which happens to be a Tagliatelle al Ragu di Ossobuco, a homemade fettuccine in a veal ragu topped with ossobuco and served tableside out of a lodigiano Nero cheese wheel. End the night with an Italian classic like L’Amico, featuring gin, sweet vermouth, cardamaro, and absinthe.