Message: | I went to Il Capriccio aka Capriccio on Vermont in Los Feliz. I had intended to go to old standby local Angeli but they were, happily for them, fully booked, so a couple of friends and I chose Capriccio based on a listing in the LATimes which said they were participating plus some vague memory of a CHarles Perry review some weeks ago in the same paper.
Well, it was very crowded. Unfortunately, that's the good part. Basically, the middle of the road Italian food offered was truly mediocre. The starters were best--some okay calamari fritti and some prosciutto with melon (a dish that's hard to ruin but this wasn't a particularly good version). A tomato basil pate with some kind of cheese was tasteless.
The pastas were terrible, flaccid, about five minutes past al dente. I felt disgusted with myself for finishing mine, a penne norcina (with sausage). I happen to have been to Norcia itself in the last year and this wasn't even a kissing cousin of the original.
Anywya, it all went to a worthy cause, or some of it. Obviously, there won't be a next time.
For those that care, the place is BYOB and (here's something good) they don't charge for corkage.
Note to Caroline Tilley: We're all behind and just remember the famous words of the "I Ching"--- "Change. Opportunity!" [exclamation point mine] |