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One of our favorite restaurants is Il Fornaio. Every month features a different region of Italy. The island of Sicily is featured this month. The Pasta chi Purpetti was wonderful. It had housemade tagliatelle pasta, tiny veal meatballs, peas, pecorino, parmesan and aged ricotta; served with a red wine-pancetta sauce. We also enjoyed the Scaloppine Conca d’Oro, sautéed veal topped with mozzarella, eggplant and tomato sauce; served with seasonal braised greens and roasted fingerling potatoes.

We also had a bottle of Nero d’Avola, Scurati Ceuso. This supple and delicious red is produced from native Nero d’Avola grapes cultivated in the mountains of Sicily. It is a complex and medium-bodied wine with intense aromas and flavors of fresh plum, blackberries, black cherries and spice.

We went to the Il Fornaio in the Roseville Galleria, but there is also one in the Wells Fargo Building on Capitol Mall in Downtown Sacramento.