Burlingame Avenue · Regional Italian
SAPORE
Tonight's Kitchen
Pasta rolled fresh every morning, premium ingredients, and the old-school family cooking we grew up on.
Spaghetti Vongole
Manila clams · Tomales Bay, California
Ravioli di Ricotta
Semola di grano duro · Puglia
Domenica Lasagna Bolognese
Parmigiano Reggiano 24-month · Emilia-Romagna
Our Story
A stool at my grandmother's table
I rolled my first orecchiette in Puglia at six years old, badly, with a butter knife. Every dish here starts from something someone taught me by hand.
We choose the olive oil before we write the menu. Two pressings arrive each season — one for cooking, one that never sees heat, poured at the pass over fish and greens.
Pasta is mixed, rolled and cut every morning in our own kitchen: semola from Altamura, eggs from a single ranch, nothing dried and nothing bought in. It rests for hours before it ever meets water.
The room was built for long dinners — olive velvet banquettes, plaster walls, one candle per table. Nothing here is designed to turn a table twice in an evening.
Private Experience
Three rooms, one long table at a time
La Cantinetta seats twelve under the wine racks, Il Terrazzino twenty-five in the open air, La Stanza fifty for the evenings that fill a room.
Every private dinner is cooked from the same kitchen as the dining room — hand-rolled pasta courses, whole coastal fish, braises that started the day before — served family style or plated, whichever suits the evening.
We build the menu with you: three tiered party menus for lunch or dinner, wine pairings chosen bottle by bottle, and a coordinator on the floor the entire night.
Rehearsal dinners, milestone birthdays, board dinners and holiday parties. Call (650) 867-5719 for private events and catering, and we'll hold the room.
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1447 Burlingame Ave.
Burlingame, CA 94010. Call us at (650) 437-2422 — or (650) 867-5719 for catering and private parties.
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