Casa Carbone - Aurora

Caramelle chocolate pasta (7 tiny pieces, very expensive) was the highlight of an otherwise average meal. Coal fired oven was overused on overwhelming radicchio salad and underused on flavourless pizza crust. Caesar salad was too sweet. Radicchio salad could benefit from being deconstructed so that the fennel and other ingredients are a bright clean taste contrast. Friendly and casual atmosphere: this is not fine dining but it has expensive fine dining prices. It's in a suburban strip mall. Locally owned.

This place serves gourmet Italian Italian (not Italian American food). Calamari Grigliatti was decent but a rather small serving. Grilled calamari is quite unusual most places fry theirs. Got the linguini with gorgonzola sauce walnuts. It was a bit small but good, with a generous portion of gorgonzola walnuts. Pizza capricciosa was good with a nice char on the crust, though my dining companion thought there was a bit too much char. If you have a big appetite you may end your meal still hungry, since they don't serve bread.

Finally able to enjoy a great meal in a restaurant !!!! The food was great and the service was great! What more can I say. I know...the steak was wow!! Just perfecProbably a good idea to make reservations. Authentic and great tasting Italian food on the patio. FINALLY!!!

Review is based on the 3 items ordered: diavola, Al mare pizzas and Lamb ragu tagliatelle. Squid in the pizzq was partially undercooked, and there was too much sauce on the pizzas making i soggy fast. The pizzas are thin so I understand if they were thicker that might not have been the problem. Lamb ragu was okay felt the pasta was over cooked not al dente. Overqll I would try other dishes because of the reviews etc but won't order any of these 3 dishes again.

My daughter and I went here last night. The delicious food was totally unexpected. The steak was cooked the way I like it. We also tried their Agnolotti, Gnocchi....and Crostata. Ohhhh to die for. Thank you for a wonderful meal and awesome service!