{"id":72,"date":"2016-02-13T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.citywalkerapp.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:38:15","slug":"acqua-al-2-bring-fresh-italian-food-to-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/acqua-al-2-bring-fresh-italian-food-to-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Acqua Al 2 bring fresh Italian food to DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ll admit from the start that I am a bit biased in my review here.\u00a0 For some time now I have been lamenting the Hill\u2019s lack of a good Italian restaurant that doesn\u2019t suffer from the Olive Garden-tendency to think that pasta should be hidden in large mounds of cream-based sauces and then topped with extra cheese.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying that we have no good options on the Hill, but the existing ones just fall a little short of satisfying my personal cravings.\u00a0 After spending some time in Italy, and going to school in the heart of the Italian section of the Bronx, I crave certain things in a good Italian restaurant.\u00a0 Yes, I realize that I am being a bit snobbish in my standards, but we all have something that we are overly picky with.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve been eagerly following the progress of\u00a0Acqua al 2<\/a>, whose first location was opened in Florence, Italy in 1978.\u00a0 (A second location in San Diego, California was opened in 2000.)\u00a0 In hearing that they would have a menu of Tuscan cuisine, I knew I was finally in for the kind of Italian meal I had been craving for so long.<\/p>\n

While their tables were all booked up on Saturday \u2013 their opening night \u2013 my dad and I decided to stop by to just eat at the bar, where we were able to chat with Nathan Berger, the bar manager who also happens to be my next door neighbor.\u00a0 \u00a0Despite getting a peek at a menu one night last week, I had no idea what to order because everything was making my mouth water.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll admit from the start that I am a bit biased in my review here.\u00a0 For some time now I have been lamenting the Hill\u2019s lack of a good Italian restaurant that doesn\u2019t suffer from the Olive Garden-tendency to think that pasta should be hidden in large mounds of cream-based sauces and then topped with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[156,158,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drink","category-food","category-italian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/N_Bar3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9buia-1a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citywalkerapp.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}