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Trattoria on Alder Street · since 1987

Come hungry, stay late

Fresh pasta rolled every morning, a sauce that has been on the stove since breakfast, and a table that is yours for the whole evening.

Book a tableor call +1 555 0142
Open Tuesday to Sunday, noon till eleven. Walk-ins welcome at the bar.
Benvenuti

Three generations, one kitchen, and the same eleven sauces Nonna Rosalba wrote down in 1987

La carta

Tonight's menu

Short on purpose. Ask about the two specials on the chalkboard — they change with the market.

  • To start

  • Bruschetta al pomodoro$9

    Grilled country bread, ripe tomatoes, basil, new oil

  • Burrata & roast peppers$14

    With anchovy crumbs and a splash of aged vinegar

  • Fried artichokes$12

    Lemon, mint and sea salt

  • Pizza from the brick oven

  • Margherita$15

    San Marzano tomato, fior di latte, basil

  • Salsiccia e friarielli$18

    House fennel sausage, bitter greens, smoked provola

  • Fresh pasta

  • Rigatoni al pomodoro$16

    The house sauce, six hours on the stove

  • Tagliatelle al ragù$19

    Beef and pork, slow-cooked with a little milk

  • Ricotta & lemon ravioli$18

    Brown butter, sage, toasted hazelnuts

  • Lasagne della nonna$20

    Nine thin layers, baked to order — allow twenty minutes

  • Something sweet

  • Tiramisù$9

    Made each morning, gone by ten most nights

  • Affogato$7

    Vanilla gelato drowned in a short espresso
Piatti della casa

The plates people cross town for

Margherita

Ninety seconds in a 450° oven

Lemon ravioli

Filled by hand, forty to a tray

Lasagne

Nonna's recipe, never changed

Tiramisù

Mascarpone, espresso, cocoa

Fatto a mano

Made by hand before you are awake

  1. Flour and eggs, nothing elseSoft 00 flour and thirty yolks to the kilo, mixed on a wooden board.
  2. Rolled, cut and restedMarco rolls each sheet by eye. It rests under a cloth until service.
  3. Three minutes in the potCooked to order, finished in the pan with its sauce, on your table hot.

Set tables for every appetite

Weekday lunch

$19 per person

  • Starter or soup of the day
  • Any pasta from the menu
  • Espresso and a biscotto

Sunday table

$38 per person

  • Antipasti for the whole table
  • Two pastas, served family style
  • Roast of the day, tiramisù

The big feast

$52 per person

  • Six courses chosen by the kitchen
  • House wine by the carafe
  • For tables of eight to twenty

What the neighbours say

We came for one bowl of rigatoni and left three hours later with a jar of sauce and a hug.Priya Nolan, Alder Street
The lasagne tastes exactly like 1994. I have checked every year since.Tom Okafor, regular since the beginning
They sat fourteen of us for my mother's seventieth and never once hurried the table.Elena Marsh, Riverside
Feste in famiglia

The back room is yours for birthdays, christenings and long lunches

Up to twenty-four guests around two long tables, a menu agreed with the kitchen a week ahead, and nobody asking for the room back.

Plan a partyor call +1 555 0142

Good to know before you come

Do I need to book?

For Friday, Saturday and Sunday lunch — yes, a few days ahead. On weeknights we keep half the room for walk-ins.

Can you cook for allergies?

Tell us when you book. We make gluten-free pasta every morning and most sauces are free of nuts and dairy.

Are children welcome?

Always. There are high chairs, half portions of every pasta and crayons on the paper tablecloths.

Do you do takeaway?

Pizza and pasta to collect from five o'clock, and jars of the house sauce at the bar for $8.

Your table is waiting

Tell us the day and how many of you are coming. We answer every booking ourselves, usually within the hour.

Book a tableor call +1 555 0142