Will and I took my aunt Joanne and uncle Peter for dinner as a belated holiday gift last night to our new favorite Sardinian restaurant, La Ciccia, in Noe Valley (30th Street at Church).
We decided to order two appetizers, two first courses (pastas) and two main dishes and split them all to try more dishes.
Featured "salumi" appetizer, salmon and ahi tuna carpacio with smoked eel. Delish!We also had the Prupisceddu in Umidu (octopus stew in a spicy tomato sauce), which Will and I had tried before and enjoyed a lot. The octopus was so tender and the stew was fantastic with the homemade bread.
This was a featured pasta of the evening, a taglianini with shaved ahi tuna heart, sounded so interesting and tasting wonderful.
We also had to make sure that my aunt and uncle got a chance to try the Fregua cun Cordolinu e Sumini (Sardinian Fregula served with Mushrooms and Pancetta), one of my favorites on the menu.
A featured entree for the evening, an extremely tender pork loin, breaded and served with a 5 mushroom tapenade and herbed mashed potatoes. This was my favorite dish of the evening, the pork was incredibly tender
As recommended by the server, we tried the Spezzatinu de Sirboni cun Zaffaranu (Wild Boar Stew with Saffron and Dried Porcini Mushrooms) which was also pretty amazing.
For dessert, we shared this interesting dome-shaped cake, with orange cake on the outside and chocolate gelato and pistachio gelato on the inside. It was really good.
As expected, La Ciccia did not disappoint. It's a great little place with lots of great food, nice atmosphere and a very helpful staff. I heart Sardinian food...
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