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<\/a>Last weekend, our friend Savatore Di Scala invited us out to eat at Naples 15<\/a>\u00a0(in Madison), his newly opened restaurant.\u00a0 We were not given any menus, Sal said it was going to be a surprise!\u00a0 We ordered\u00a0a couple glasses of red\u00a0wine (Cannonau from Sardinia and Sangiovese Grosso from Tuscany) and eagerly awaited the first dish.\u00a0 He presented a cold swordfish and Swiss chard salad.\u00a0 The\u00a0truffle\u00a0oil and vinegar dressing was\u00a0assertive and went well with the fatty swordfish, the uncooked chard refreshing.\u00a0 What a bold start.\u00a0 Next was a colorful antipasto plate with olive oil marinated mushrooms, peppers with capers and black olives, balsamic glazed carrots, and a most excellent version of the eggplant and zucchini parmesan (with layers so thin that we couldn’t\u00a0tell where the cheese, vegetable, or tomato sauce\u00a0began).\u00a0 A mouth-watering sausage and mushroom pizza came next, generously topped with truffle oil.\u00a0 After that, the\u00a0best tasting pasta we’ve had in quite awhile.\u00a0 Spaghetti with clams (a Neapolitan specialty), cherry tomatoes, lots of fried\u00a0garlic (I counted about 8 or 9 cloves), extra virgin olive oil, and fresh parsley.<\/p>\n \u00a0The Meal<\/em><\/p>\n We thought, we might be near the end of the meal but then Sal appeared from\u00a0a corner with\u00a0two pots filled with Neapolitan ragu on top of a pork spare rib and gnocchi.\u00a0 The sauce was rich and delicious from being slowly simmered for several hours.\u00a0 Finally the dessert, angel food cake and peaches sitting in warm milk,\u00a0Grand Marnier,\u00a0and ricotta sauce then came\u00a0a slightly sweet and\u00a0frothy cup of espresso made with the beautiful Marzocco<\/a> machine.\u00a0 After the coffee, Sal\u00a0took a break and\u00a0we shared a refreshing\u00a0bottle of Mastroberardino white wine and some vanilla gelato with roasted figs.\u00a0 A breath!\u00a0 Sal’s cooking is exactly like his personality.\u00a0 The flavors were bold and unapologetic.\u00a0 We are grateful for his generosity of time and\u00a0for sharing\u00a0his love of food.\u00a0 Go check out the restaurant and say hello.\u00a0 Written on the wall across from where I was sitting was “Quanno ‘o mellone esce russo, ognuno ne vo’ ‘na fella<\/em>.”, meaning “When the melon is red, everyone wants a piece.”\u00a0 We wish Naples 15<\/a>\u00a0a red melon year. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last weekend, our friend Savatore Di Scala invited us out to eat at Naples 15\u00a0(in Madison), his newly opened restaurant.\u00a0 We were not given any menus, Sal said it was going to be a surprise!\u00a0 We ordered\u00a0a couple glasses of red\u00a0wine (Cannonau from Sardinia and Sangiovese Grosso from Tuscany) and eagerly awaited the first dish.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37,432,433,36],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-italian","tag-naples-15","tag-neapolitan","tag-restaurant","has-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/naples15collage.jpeg\" "\\"naples15collage\\"")
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