I'd love to see real authentic Italian food. This means (among MANY other things):
preparing the sauce (aka gravy) from scratch, and never using jarred, canned, or restaurant-supply-store-packaged sauce.
using fresh herbs, or recently-dried herbs from a local garden or herb farm (dried oregano in a supply store plastic jar with a 2-year expiration date won't cut it).
using locally-produced mozzarella cheese, sliced rather than shredded.
preparing EVERYTHING right there in the kitchen, never using mixes or ready-to-cook pre-prepared meats and veggies from the restaurant supply house (or the chain-store's corporate warehouses)
Cutting veggies there, in the kitchen, never buying salads already made up and ready for dressing.
No foodie stuff. There would be no truffle oil anywhere in the building. Or Kombucha.
Parmesan cheese that doesn't come from a cardboard container. Same with romano.
Espresso made to order from an actual espresso machine, and the milk steamed and foamed with an actual milk steamer/foamer.
Whipped cream made at the store, not squirted from a can or dumped out of a cool-whip tub.
Cannoli shells made there, or brought in from a local italian pastry shop, and the cannoli cream made on site fresh every day.
Lots of stews, fish, eggplant.
FRESH-made pasta - made with an actual pasta machine on site.
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