An old-school Italian neighborhood restaurant with large portions, reasonable prices, friendly service and lots of garlic. The menu includes mostly standard fare, though there are a variety of less-typical pasta dishes featuring tripe, anchovies and chicken livers (no, not together!).
My fave dish, linguine with white clam sauce, includes tiny clams in the shell plus tender chopped clams, probably cherrystone. The sauteed escarole is quite good and the house salad tastes like home.
LaManda's pizza is some of the best in the area, with a thin crust and flavorful sauce. We recently picked one up to take home and discovered it had the wrong toppings. They quickly fixed us a replacement, at least four people apologized at least twice each, they packed up two huge pieces of ricotta cheesecake for us and insisted we keep the pie with the wrong toppings. We had started out feeling grumpy about the mistake and our delayed meal, and ended up feeling well cared for.
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