Osteria Poggio

[Newbiesaukee]

We ate there Thursday night. It was busy, the food and service were very good and the menu is interesting.

As far as being in English. There were a number of ingredients that I was not familiar with many of which could have been rendered easily in English. Also, why mention “Magic Dust” as an ingredient as it gives no information useful to the patron. I have no issue with asking the server the identity of a preparation; but I should not have to guess the makeup of “Magic Dust.”

It really is a quibble (this is the Forum) and we all enjoyed our meal.

Oh, just an FYI for the restaurant...on the new professionally printed summer menu “pappardelle” is not spelled correctly.

[SAMIAM]

Originally Posted by Newbiesaukee

We ate there Thursday night. It was busy, the food and service were very good and the menu is interesting.

As far as being in English. There were a number of ingredients that I was not familiar with many of which could have been rendered easily in English. Also, why mention “Magic Dust” as an ingredient as it gives no information useful to the patron. I have no issue with asking the server the identity of a preparation; but I should not have to guess the makeup of “Magic Dust.”

It really is a quibble (this is the Forum) and we all enjoyed our meal.

Oh, just an FYI for the restaurant...on the new professionally printed summer menu “pappardelle” is not spelled correctly.

Oh no.....they misspelled "pappardelle" ?
That's it...never going there again : )

[upthesaukee]

Originally Posted by Newbiesaukee

We ate there Thursday night. It was busy, the food and service were very good and the menu is interesting.

As far as being in English. There were a number of ingredients that I was not familiar with many of which could have been rendered easily in English. Also, why mention “Magic Dust” as an ingredient as it gives no information useful to the patron. I have no issue with asking the server the identity of a preparation; but I should not have to guess the makeup of “Magic Dust.”

It really is a quibble (this is the Forum) and we all enjoyed our meal.

Oh, just an FYI for the restaurant...on the new professionally printed summer menu “pappardelle” is not spelled correctly.

Not sure how it was misspelled, but if it had an "a" on the end rather than an "e", it is simply the singular form of that type of pasta.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappardelle

Do you like it with mushroom or mushrooms?

Dave

[Newbiesaukee]

Originally Posted by upthesaukee

Not sure how it was misspelled, but if it had an "a" on the end rather than an "e", it is simply the singular form of that type of pasta.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappardelle

Do you like it with mushroom or mushrooms?

Dave

Their spelling is “parpadelle” which doesn’t parse in any language.

https://www.osteriapoggio.com/menu

[ITD]

Originally Posted by Newbiesaukee

We ate there Thursday night. It was busy, the food and service were very good and the menu is interesting.

As far as being in English. There were a number of ingredients that I was not familiar with many of which could have been rendered easily in English. Also, why mention “Magic Dust” as an ingredient as it gives no information useful to the patron. I have no issue with asking the server the identity of a preparation; but I should not have to guess the makeup of “Magic Dust.”

It really is a quibble (this is the Forum) and we all enjoyed our meal.

Oh, just an FYI for the restaurant...on the new professionally printed summer menu “pappardelle” is not spelled correctly.

Obviously a quibble to you but you really need to reconsider before you conclude others are quibbling. It's more of a problem for me. My wife has food allergies/ intolerances, having to wait to sit down at table to find out she can't eat anything there isn't going to happen. Calling ahead to ask for a word by word translation of the menu? Nope. So I'm glad they published an English menu.

I get it, they were being clever and trying to set a mood for the restaurant. Good for them for trying, even better for them to publish in English, I'm betting I'm not the only one who had an issue.

[SIKSUKR]

The only "magic dust" I know of is when Cheech and Chong referred to that in their "Santa Claus " video".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bf9lUdRWFA