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On a recent early evening, waiters first brought to our table Torino’s version of the popular Italian appetizer, Carciofi Fritti, often called “Roman-style fried artichokes.” Gamberi e Pancetta at Caffe Torino in the Foothills (Credit: Jackie Tran) Dining as the Italians do “The fish we serve is caught each morning in Guaymas and delivered express to us that same afternoon,” said Shouse. Since opening its Foothills site in 2013, the restaurant has earned a widespread reputation throughout metropolitan Tucson for its savory pasta and seafood dishes.

#Caffe di notte plus#

The restaurant’s capacious lunch and dinner menus list an impressively extensive offering of appetizers, salads, pasta, and both seafood and meat entrées, plus vegetarian, and vegan options - all presented in bounteous portions.īut if there is a singular Torino specialty, it is likely seafood.

Shouse is quick to emphasize, “Our passion is to serve incomparably delicious food.”ĭelicious and plentiful. Together with Torino’s general manager, Ollie Shouse, co-executive chef, David Royle, and Angel Ciambor, chef at the Foothills site, she keeps a keen, continuous eye on food preparation. Daniela, who remains responsible for overall uniform quality control at both locations, also creates inventive new recipes to assure that the Torino dishes remain fresh and vibrant. The menus at the Oro Valley and Foothills Torino restaurants are identical. Afternoon interior at Caffe Torino in the Foothills (Credit: Jackie Tran) A passion to serve incomparably delicious food In the late 1980s, Borella immigrated with her parents, Edy and Italo, and, in 2000, she and her mother opened a small cafe specializing in coffee and sandwiches.Įncouraged by the popularity of the tiny panini luncheon stand, and making good use of a reservoir of family recipes from the old country, the family opened Caffe Torino, honoring the northern Italian city of Turin.

These striking, enlarged images reflect the restaurant’s deep Italian roots. Surrounding small tables, ringed by comfortable booths on the room’s perimeter, are walls decorated with enormous, black-and-white photographs of the family of Daniela Borella, owner and executive chef, taken years ago in her native Italy. Alan Shestack, ed., Yale University Art Gallery Selections (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983).A spin-off from Caffe Torino in Oro Valley, which has been drawing crowds of devotees for two decades, the Foothills venue feels surprisingly intimate given that it can seat up to 80 guests.Jan Hulsker, The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches (Amsterdam: J.

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