September RC – Vinny’s Ristorante

September RC was a little bittersweet as we had to wish one of our founding members and dearest friends a bon voyage as she heads off to Las Vegas.

As usual, we started out with several appetizers for the table:

• Caprese salad
• Chicken meatballs ($2 a ball)
• Littlenecks in white wine, garlic, and olive oil
• Arancini
• Stuffed artichoke

My favorite appetizers were the arancini and the littlenecks, and I think that was because the sauce with each of these dishes were so fantastic. Definitely worth saving some room for dipping bread into both the marinara sauce and the white wine, garlic, and olive oil. The stuffed artichoke was confusing to eat (as artichokes usually are), and the chicken meatballs were an odd color.

Littlenecks

Arancini

For dinner, I ordered the chicken bracciola with homemade fusilli (chicken breast stuffed with prosciutto, Swiss cheese, and homemade sun-dried tomatoes). The fusilli was my favorite part of the dish, so next time I should probably just order pasta. We also heard that the fried mashed potatoes were delicious so we ordered a few side orders to really put us in a food coma.

Chicken bracciola

Fried mashed potatoes and veg

Some other comments from the RC’ers included

• “cheap beer”
• “don’t get the stuffed veal chop”
• “chicken marsala was fair”
• “sturdy to go bags” (I can’t make this stuff up)…helpful since the portions are huge

Great pick Paetra…we will miss you! Here’s hoping for a RC reunion in Vegas sometime soon!

The damage:
$43 per person, including gratuity (and we did have a $50 Groupon)

The rundown:
Vinny’s Ristorante
76 Broadway, Somerville