Speck Italian Eatery - Review - Downtown - Columbus - The Infatuation

Always lively with the celebratory clinks of wine glasses, Speck is ideal for a birthday gathering or night out with the grown-ups. Kick off the meal with a classic Negroni or the Campari-spiked Garibaldi, then order perpetual table pleasers like the speck and burrata starter featuring crisp giardiniera and the gem lettuce salad that comes under an avalanche of parmesan. The pasta here is made in its very own “pasta room,” which overlooks the street-level dining room and churns out noodles for dishes like bucatini pomodoro, sausage ragu mafaldine, and the decadent casarecce with bone marrow. No visit is complete without a digestif and the chewy Tuscan lemon cookies. - Erin Edwards