Hotel Del Coronado (5)

The last full day at "The Del", a great place to sit back and soak it in, and a place that Sandy and I hope to return someday.  To celebrate our last day we decided to eat at a garage.  In the town of Coronado the is a "Little Italy", and one restaurant "Garage Buona Forchetta" (Garage of the Good Fork).  It is a repurposed auto repair garage.  Still looks like a garage, cars and auto product signs throughout.  The building is a mixture of Italian food market, Italian wine market and an Italian restaurant.  

I honestly wanted just a bowl of pasta with some bolognese sauce.  Our very Italian server, with an assist from Sandy convinced me to go with the risotto and osso buco.  A good decision but I'm still craving some good old italo-american pile of spaghetti.  Of course, I can get that spaghetti just about anywhere, but a well prepared risotto not everyone can do that.  This faithfully authentic restaurant did just that.

Sandy had Penne Pesto

This is a Fiat that the owner actually drives.  When he's at the restaurant it is parked in the middle of the al fresco dining area.  Certainly makes everything feel Italian.

• I am checking out a $750 Italian Piedmont.  I couldn't get Sandy to agree to this one.