Tutto Italia
Disney World's Epcot Italy Pavilion
Orlando, FL
Words cannot describe how good this place is. First of all you walk in and you feel you are standing on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. There are beautiful paintings every where of famous places in Italy and famous artwork from Italy. All of the staff in this restaurant are from Italy, even the chefs. You know you are going to get authentic italian food in this place. Honestly you can't go wrong with anything on this menu. My family and I have tried multiple items on the menu and nothing is short of delicious. Before you even order your meal, steaming baskets of fresh bread come out that you swear your italian grandmother is making in the kitchen. Of course if you have an italian grandma. Most American restaurants serve butter with their bread, but in Italy oil is very common. The oil is imported from Italy and is absolutely delicious. Plus they add fresh basil, fresh cracked pepper, garlic, and crushed red peper flakes in the oil and when you dip the steamy bread into this flavored oil you honestly feel like you died and went to heaven. Then you look at the menu and of course you can't decide what to get cause everything is written in italian and sounds delicious. The language is quite beautiful. The one dish that I promise is definitely the best on the menu is the cannelloni. It has everything anybody could want in a pasta dish. Pasta, tomato sauce, spinach, 3 cheeses, and a cream sauce. There is no way this thing can be bad. It comes to the table and of course you aren't allowed to touch the dish cause it just came out of a 500 degree broiler that creates a crust of mozzarella and ricotta cheese on top. You crack through this crusty shell of cheese on top to find pillowy softness underneath. Light, thin sheets of pasta in a tube shape stuffed with the richest ricotta cheese and most tender spinach you have ever tasted. Underneath the two cannelloni is a thin layer of the lightest, freshest tomato sauce you have ever tasted. The top is delicately topped with another layer of tomato sauce and then a layer of bechamel sauce, which is a typical thickened cream sauce. Then like I said before, you have the crust of mozzarella and parmesan cheeses on top. The contrast of textures and flavors of this concoction is ridiculous. This really is the best thing I ever ate. If you want it you have to get there fast because the menu always changes. You cannot miss out on this authentic and delicious italian masterpiece.
