Scarpetta

Scott Conant's Scarpetta opened in Beverly Hills about a year and a half ago coming from New York and it's been on my list of places to go since before it opened. I finally made it there for the summer Dine LA Restaurant Week and this was a meal well worth the wait. Sometimes you can tell whether you will like a restaurant just by their bread service. Scarpetta definitely has one of the best bread baskets in town, hands down. The basket is loaded with 3 types of bread: a small white ciabatta roll, a focaccia, and this amazing stromboli. The bread is served alongside a trio of dipping condiments making for an all around winning bread service, well done Scarpetta! The meals held up to the bar set by the bread and the dessert didn't disappoint. My entree was the short rib agnolotti and it was one of the best pasta dishes I have had in some time.

Stromboli

Olive oil, eggplant caponata, mascapone butter

Basil martini

HALIBUT CRUDO: lemon cucumber, chili vinaigrette, fi nger limes

FIORI DI ZUCCA FRITTI: ricotta stuff ed zucchini  flower, baby stewed tomatoes

SHORT RIB AGNOLOTTI: hon shimeji mushrooms, brown butter, 

hazelnuts, horseradish

SPICED DUCK BREAST: fi ngerling potatoes, patty pan squash, pole beans,
frog hollow farm stone fruit mostarda

CHOCOLATE CAKE: burnt orange-caramel gelato, espresso sauce

VANILLA CARAMEL BUDINO: gianduja chocolate sable cookies

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