David M.
Yelp
This place is off the charts! It well deserves its 4.5 rating from over a hundred reviews-and I had never heard of it before I found it by chance while looking for a place just south of Hilltop.
Tucked in a little strip mall on Leetsdale down around Forest St. you'll mistake this place for a tiny hole-in-the-wall takeout stop. But they are a couple of wonderful people and great cooks who almost randomly chose to move from their small town in Sicily to Denver when the pandemic was in full force and found this location that seats around 20-25 people, almost by chance.
Had a business lunch there and the food was so good that we forgot the work talk and could only blabber the whole time there about how delicious the food was. Total surprise, in the way that a "surprise" brings huge grins to your faces.
This Monday, as you could guess, with the 4th being the next day, was kind of slow, so we got to talk with Samantha, the owner, and learned a little bit about their history. Neat couple with no direct links to Colorado so its just our dumb luck that they ended up here.
Their food is way under-priced. Had an incredibly great tasting eggplant roll appetizer that was enormous and could have been a meal for 2, all for $10. I told her that it was ridiculously under-priced but Samantha was not having any of that, so absolutely go in and get it at that bargain basement price. My dining partner had the chicken parmigiana sandwich that he said was wonderful and he could only eat 1/2 of it, and it too was way too cheaply priced for what you got. Had one of their raspberry almond cookies and their pistachio cookies that were also mindblowingly excellent.
Attached are some pix of the mall (so you don't drive on by without seeing it) along with a snap of the app I had.
Head on over and give yourselves a treat!