Fiore

• Cuisine(s): Italian
  Hours: Sun 10:30am-11pm, Mon-Thu 5pm-11pm, Fri 5pm-12am, Sat 10:30am-12am
  Price: $$$
• Payment Types: cash
  Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout
  Serving: Brunch, Dinner
• Alcohol: Full bar
  Reservations: Accepted, Recommended for Large Parties
  Parking: Street

Description

Finally, a modern Italian restaurant that treats good wine as a right rather than a privilege, offering decently priced Tuscans, Le Marches, and Umbrians, with a particularly fine Montepulciano Rosso from the last category. The food's fab, too, from the polipetti brasati (braised baby octopi) to wood-oven individual pizzas (pick the one with two cheeses and black peppercorns) to rich pastas delivered in huge servings, including a picture-perfect bucatini amatriciana from a tiny town in Lazio, featuring the cured hog jowl called guanciale. Only the secondi occasionally bomb. The premises is relaxing and rustic, and there's a fine patio out back.