The Main Course
Restaurant Review: Spring House's Mina Cucina Rustica
This local restaurant serves up authentic Sicilian food.
I have written that Italian cuisine is what many, including myself, would choose if told we could only have one cuisine to eat for the rest of our lives. Mina Cucina Rustica (Mina's “Country Kitchen”) is a good place to find out why. Owners Miriam (“Mina”) Bompartino and her daughter Lisa serve up fresh, homemade Italian dishes like your Nonna – if you had one – should make. Their moderately sized menu is centered around the deeply traditional foods and recipes of the various regions of Italy and especially Sicily. It even offers: “If you have a ‘family favorite’… please let us know; we will do our best to accommodate you on your next visit.” (And/or, if you call ahead, I would assume.) Mina's has a talented new head chef, Anthony Pasecri…
Joe Koenig
6:47 pm on Saturday, June 4, 2011
Just ate ther tonite. We got a coupon in the mail for a free bruschetta. We had that, the fried lobster ravioli, and the farfalla and sea food. All were excellent. More like northern Italian cooking. Very good especially for a change from southern Italian cooking. BYOB, staff polite, farly attentive. We will go back. more ›