Rimini Restaurant

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"Rimini has what Italian restaurants in Seattle don’t. Classic meatballs contain pork, veal, and beef, and no trace of orange zest. Homemade cheese tortellini in a garlic-spiked cream is so silken that it’s tough to stop eating until fullness hits like a parmesan-blasted brick. And there’s a Sicilian fellow named Tony who serenades the dining room with Sinatra standards and asks each table, “Va bene?” approximately six times per course. We wouldn’t expect less from the family behind Rimini, who also runs Montalcino in Issaquah. Turns out, crispy cannoli shell tastes very good while Tony's belting "That's Amore." - aimee rizzo, kayla sager riley, gabe guarente