I'm in the mood for Italian food for dinner

[LostinVA]

Anyone know of any place good in Morris County, nj???

[Left Is Write]

1. No, but I'm not half-bad at Italian cooking myself....

Be quite a road trip, though. :)

[LostinVA]

4. I'm pretty good, too (half Sicilian!), but I don't feel like cooking

[Left Is Write]

5. When I was younger, I always wished I were Italian or part Italian...

Being 100% Scandinavian seemed so boring to me.

[MorningGlow]

6. Oh trust me, you don't

The mafia jokes get REAAAALLLYYYY old after a while. x(

[Left Is Write]

8. As old as the lutefisk jokes and the Ole and Lena jokes?

;)

[MorningGlow]

9. Yeah probably

Stereotyping just never goes out of style, does it? :)

[LostinVA]

11. Lutefisk is the most horrible thing I've ever tasted -- EVER

[Left Is Write]

12. I've never actually tasted it.

I've been in the same room with lutefisk, according to my mother - she said it was served at some family event when I was around two, and as soon as I smelled it, I cried.

[LostinVA]

13. Lye-soaked rotting fish -- YUMMO!!!!!!

[Left Is Write]

14. Making 2-year-olds cry for centuries...

[LostinVA]

16. That's why Norwegians are so big and strong -- survival of teh fittest

If you can survive that stuff, nothing will kill you.

:scared:

[Left Is Write]

17. That's true.

I'd never mess with a lutefisk eater.

I stick to lefse when it comes to Norwegian food.

[LostinVA]

10. Since I have a cousin who is... connected, I don't mind

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. They don't bother me

Like LostinVA, I also have family (by marriage and not related to her) that are in the family.

[NewJeffCT]

2. Olive Garden

of course!

:P

[Left Is Write]

3. Dammit, she said Italian, not "Italian"!

:P

[LostinVA]

7. OOOOOO -- HOSPITALIANO!

[cwydro]

15. One of my employees brought some fantastic lasagna in

today. I'm still stuffed.

[LostinVA]

18. yum yum

I meant to ask -- did you try both of those emails for the sensei or just one?

[cwydro]

24. Just the one I think.

Just got back online. Sorry I didn't reply before, but I was in a Cessna:scared:

I'm in a hotel in Fort Myers right now.

I walked by and checked out the fitness center (dark) and then went to get a Heineken.:toast:

The other email addys were for the webmaster or something, I thought.

[LostinVA]

28. I'll see what I can find out

[cwydro]

30. Thanks.

I have it on my list of things to do when I get back to the Keys.

How much is it for classes - just ballpark?

[LostinVA]

31. It depends

My dojo is $90 unlimited, which includes weapons classes. Technically, you could go to 13 classes a week, and there's only two senseis. Since we're poor but committed, we get a deal for $45 a month. Some places let you just pay a fee per class.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Man, that was some fucking awesome Olive Garden Hospitaliano

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. How about Capo Vaticano?

http://www.boorah.com/restaurants/NJ/florham-park/capo-vaticano-italian-restaurant/EE036A5A0B.html

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. We already got some, but we will definitely keep that in mind

It's right by the Trader Joe's.

Thanks for the info. There's another great Italian place (not where we went tonight) in Morris Plains called Il Villagio. It looks kind of like a diner inside, but the food is incredible, and they have an attached Italian deli. Their homemade pumpkin ravioli are to die for. Unfortunately, you can only get them in the fall.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

26. Aw, that sounds so damn good........

There's nothing better than good Italian food, and there's nothing worse than bad Italian.

Il Villagio sounds like a place you can call home.

Yep, found their website - http://ilvillaggiorestaurant.com/. Definitely a down-home Italian place. If I lived there, I'd be a regular - you can tell from the menu.

I'm jealous, but I'm glad you had a good time. I'd kill for an Italian deli nearby, and that pumpkin ravioli - just the idea of it makes me teary.

Of course, I've watched "Real Housewives Of New Jersey," and that show has me all homesick for my childhood...............

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

27. Oh wow, they didn't used to have a website

Yeah, the pumpkin ravioli has a nutmeg-spiced dough and the filling is a light pumpkin-ricotta.

We love "Real Housewives of NJ."

LostinVA's Sicilian dad was up here on a business trip and that's where he was taken. It was a few months ago, and he still talks about Il Villagio.

[Midlodemocrat]

22. Mr. and I went to Maggiano's today for lunch. It was delicious.

Chicken saltinbocca, fried zucchini, tomato caprese. Yum.


However, the trip to Short Pump was a bust. Yankee Candle is closed. :(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

25. Yankee Candle stores give me a headache

Yet individual Yankee Candles do not.

We ended up with a "Vegetarian" brick oven pizza (topped with onions, peppers, mushrooms) and LostinVA was "craving meat" (not that kind, Flvegan), so she got a side of meat balls (still not that kind, Flvegan).

[elleng]

29. CINCHY!

http://www.dabenito.com/

http://www.milanrestaurant.com/site.html

http://www.luigisitalianrestaurant.com/ (Listed by Zagat)

There are MORE:

http://www.newjerseyvisitorsnetwork.com/users/newjersey-cgi/page3.cgi?category=full&what=eat&dir=morris


edit: Sorry I'm a day late!

[applegrove]

32. Just get some expensive extra virgin olive oil. Boil spaghetti. Drain. Add

oil and grated parmesan cheese. Yummy.