Luna Rossa’s traditional fare shows promise
Giorgio Borrelli from San Pedro mixes a cocktail at Luna Rossa. Photo by Kathalina Rodriguez In some of my columns I have lamented the quality of service in the South Bay. I have encountered waiters who didn’t know anything about the food they were serving, and who seemed puzzled that someone thought they ought to learn. When a diner asks for a recommendation and is told that “everything is good,” or gets a vague, “we sell a lot of this,” they feel that they can’t be in a very good restaurant since the people who should know the food best are so unenthusiastic. Occasionally I run across someone who goes to the opposite extreme, as happened recently at Luna Rossa. We visited the restaurant on the second floor of the Promenade Center on a Friday night when the place was fairly lively and almost left because it was so loud. (The front door is by the bar, and a large party was having a boisterous evening.) We were shown to the slightly quieter main room and given menus by an energetic Italian server who introduced himself as Gabriel. The offerings were strictly traditional, not California Italian or exotic fusion, so we decided to ask our server for suggestions. We knew we had a pro…
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