excellent Italian food
Me and Cin have found a wonderful new restaurant, the Aida Bistro in Columbia. Some folks from work had been talking about this place so we tried it out a couple of weeks ago. We went back for the second time last evening and it was just as good as the first time, discounting the possibility of a fluke.
The place is Italian and it shows. They make all of their pasta (most of their menu is pasta or includes pasta) homemade, each day. It is absolutely delicious. Cindy can explain much better than I why freshly made pasta tastes so much better than packaged stuff but she's right - it's delicious. The first time I had spaghetti in a garlic and olive oil sauce. Last night I had the same thing but with whole-wheat linguine instead. It was incredible. The whole-wheat pasta had a much different taste than the "normal" pasta and I liked each on its own, so I have a good choice between the two next time I go there. The table next to us had a salmon dish that looked fantastic, so I might try that next time.
Other nice features: they have a large wine list that starts quite cheap and gets really expensive, they have "small entree" selections which cost somewhere around $12 for a smaller portion of a delicious meal than you'd expect elsewhere (the pasta portions are smaller than most restaurants which is wonderful since they always give you too much pasta - this smaller portion approach is apparently much more inline with how they approach pasta in Italy), and everyone there is very friendly and helpful.
In short, this is a wonderful place. It's also small and hard to get into so if you wanna go, call and make reservations atleast a day or two early, even for a party of two.
The place is Italian and it shows. They make all of their pasta (most of their menu is pasta or includes pasta) homemade, each day. It is absolutely delicious. Cindy can explain much better than I why freshly made pasta tastes so much better than packaged stuff but she's right - it's delicious. The first time I had spaghetti in a garlic and olive oil sauce. Last night I had the same thing but with whole-wheat linguine instead. It was incredible. The whole-wheat pasta had a much different taste than the "normal" pasta and I liked each on its own, so I have a good choice between the two next time I go there. The table next to us had a salmon dish that looked fantastic, so I might try that next time.
Other nice features: they have a large wine list that starts quite cheap and gets really expensive, they have "small entree" selections which cost somewhere around $12 for a smaller portion of a delicious meal than you'd expect elsewhere (the pasta portions are smaller than most restaurants which is wonderful since they always give you too much pasta - this smaller portion approach is apparently much more inline with how they approach pasta in Italy), and everyone there is very friendly and helpful.
In short, this is a wonderful place. It's also small and hard to get into so if you wanna go, call and make reservations atleast a day or two early, even for a party of two.
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