Restaurants
Spot This On An Italian Restaurant's Drink Menu And You're Probably At A Bad One By Joe Hoeffner June 7, 2025 4:00 pm EST
Few things enrich the soul quite like a visit to a quality Italian restaurant (or an Italian-American restaurant, if you want to be a pedant about it). Whether you're one for pizza and spaghetti with red sauce or you prefer something like a decadent, creamy fetuccine alfredo, it's enough to make you feel like you're exactly where you need to be — even if you're preparing for a divorce, like Brenda and Eddie in the great Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant." (This writer is from Long Island, so we're allowed to call Billy Joel great.) But what if you're not in a quality Italian restaurant? How can you tell? According to Erik Kelly,