Inventive Italian with fresh handmade pasta & small plates























"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, kindra peach
"Take the 40-minute trip north to the city of Delaware to visit Speck, where chef Josh Dalton serves joyfully nontraditional twists on Italian dishes (think: confit chicken wings and balsamic glazed Iberico ribs). Start the meal off with sfincione (Sicilian pizza) with rich olive oil and flaky sea salt, or the humboldt fog toast layered with browned butter, radicchio, and sage. Then feast on octopus and grilled branzino, and end with the budino featuring amaretto and macadamia." - Angela Lee
