Streeter's Meat

On Thursday night Mary made a reservation (in Italian, you go girl!) at La Cantinela downtown. This place is famous for its steak, which is cooked on a soapstone griddle right at your table. The hostess is also very strict, when Mary tried to change the reservation she got a stearn lecture, saying that it would not be possible and don't be late.

When we got there we could see why; La Cantinela is what all Italian restaurants in the states dream to be: casual yet elegant, with fantastic food. Everything we ordered was great; the pastas, the starters, all definitely (several) cuts above what we had been surviving on for the last couple weeks.

Finally, the celebrated meat arrived. Streeter was particularly thrilled, as you can see.


Pierce is serious when cooking, Streeter not so much


A happy boy!

Truth be told, so was I. Every place I travel to I try to have at least one really nice dinner--this was definitely worth the wait. As we left; we had to press by the throngs of people trying to get in and went, very satisified into the rainy Torino night.