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Located in South First Street's Thicket Food Park, this food trailer serves Italian favorites including lasagna Bolognese, gnocchi, and spaghetti alla carbonara.
Contemporary American-Italian cuisine, curated by executive chef Jennifer Coffman, in a restaurant-style marketplace with a grocery component.
Varied Italian regional cuisines and an extensive wine list keep this Hyde Park neighborhood stalwart hopping. The pizza and seafood dishes are terrific, but we always gravitate to the risotto.
This is your basic family-style Italian restaurant, where the portions are large, the prices are ridiculously low, and the quality is fine.
This national chain serves "immigrant Southern Italian" cuisine. Dishes are served family-style or personalized for two with smaller portions.
Order from the pasta bar, sample one of the wood-fired pizzas, or choose a grilled specialty. The menu also includes the requisite lasagna and spaghetti options.
A Clarksville charmer, Cipollina has the feel of well-kept secret. Mediterranean-inspired dishes abound, such as paninos at lunchtime, as well as pasta and signature wood-fired pizzas all the time. For dinner, try the cioppino.
A comfortable neighborhood spot with pasta, pizzas, and beer.
A family restaurant serving "home-cooked Italian specialties" and buffalo wings.
The happy hour from 4-7pm offers cheaper appetisers and pizza, and the decent selection of wines by the bottle and the glass makes it merrier. The dinner menu features a terrific pappardelle bolognese, as well as a meatball appetizer that melts into its sauce.
We loved the pizza with sun-dried tomatoes and melting morsels of Texas chèvre. The food here is worth the drive from town.
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