Dine and Dish heads to Michelangelo's Pizza in Old Town Clovis

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Michelangelo's connected Woodworth Avenue successful Old Town Clovis has been serving Italian cuisine for 25 years, and it is afloat of savory surprises.

Perhaps the biggest 1 for galore is the household that owns it.

"They're precise surprised, astatine first, successful learning that we're Mexican, but we ain an Italian restaurant," explains manager Analy Rosales.

"Why bash radical emotion the nutrient here? Well, we effort to marque it arsenic caller arsenic possible," said proprietor Jose "JR" Rosales. Adding, "That's wherefore I chose an Italian restaurant."

Jose's woman Rita makes the pasta dishes. Her database of ingredients exemplifies that doctrine of freshness.

"In the carbonara, I enactment caller mushrooms, garlic, basil, chicken, reddish onion, achromatic onions, and bacon," said Rita Rosales.

I tried the carbonara with the penne. It was truly good, with a hint of smoke.

The alfredo condiment is made with dense pick close aft you bid it.

Some radical inquire Jose Rosales if he's Italian due to the fact that of the authentic cuisine. He says that's what you get aft 52 years of acquisition successful the kitchen.

The pizzas are named aft artists specified arsenic Da Vinci, Monet, Picasso, and Frida.

But the Van Gogh is simply a superior masterpiece. It comes with ail pick sauce, mushrooms, spicy chicken, sausage and bluish cheese.

That caller dough goes a agelong way.

It's utilized to marque the stromboli, which is folded doubly and dipped into marinara sauce.

Jose's ever filling calzones, including 1 called the Chori Queso due to the fact that it's topped with chorizo, a motion to the family's Mexican heritage.

In different nod, the dough is utilized to marque a puffed-up tortilla with a chipotle sauce.

To lavation it each down, cheque retired Michelangelo's extended whiskey collection.

"We person adjacent to 300, if not more, antithetic whiskeys," said Analy Rosales.

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