Last week my friend Rachel asked me if there was another new restaurant I’d like to try and if I’d like her company for lunch. We decided to go to Napoli, a restaurant on the south-ish end of town. One of my co-workers goes there regularly with a group of women from church. Napoli, as you might have guessed is Italian. It must have been something else (like maybe a fast food joint) before. There are two entrances and a little pick-up window where you pay and order food to go.
The most daunting task about a new restaurant is looking over the menu. Napoli’s menu is huge, several pages of pastas, pizza and other italian goodies. In addition there were signs posted on the wall that reminded customers that they had new wrap sandwiches (as if we needed any more choices). I finally decided on manicoti and Rachel decided on baked ziti. (When trying a new restaurant I usually don’t order something new. Generally one new experience is about all I can handle at one time.)
The lunch menu, which is very reasonably priced, includes salad and bread, hot from the oven. It was great. My manicoti appeared to be homemade, because unlike the store-bought tube pasta it was hand-rolled pancake shaped pasta. It was excellent. Rachel and I both agreed that when we first got our meals we intended to take half home, but we enjoyed the food so much neither of us did.
Overall, this was an excellent dining experience. Dinner appeared to be a little more expensive, but lunch was an excellent meal for a very good price.
It was Luigi’s before it was Napoli, but I don’t know what it was before that…