Dine and Dish: Roma Italian Kitchen in northeast Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Andrew DiNuzzo's creativity stokes the flames astatine Roma Italian Kitchen astatine Chestnut and Shepherd successful northeast Fresno.

"We bash person rather a fewer things connected the paper that aren't your emblematic Italian," helium said. "Still successful the bubble, but extracurricular of the container astatine the aforesaid time."

We emotion surprises.

"This is our instrumentality connected a cordon bleu -- it is simply a pounded retired chickenhearted breast, breaded," DiNuzzo said. "We worldly it with adust bluish cheese, Canadian bacon, mushroom and garlic."

It's covered with melted mozzarella.

The mushroom agnolotti, I liked "a-lotty."

"It is simply a larger agnolotti, truthful it's fundamentally a ravioli, crescent-shaped," DiNuzzo said. "Wild mushroom stuffed, and we saute immoderate onion, mushroom and garlic, and we deed it with a small spot of marsala, truthful it's a marsala pick reduction."

Andrew's household has been feeding Fresno for a agelong time.

"Grandparents started Mike's Pizzeria -- it's my Nono Mike and Nona Angelina successful 1962 connected the country of West and Shields," helium said.

Dad inactive runs the pizzeria.

Andrew's edifice is named aft his daughter, Roma.

"I consciousness truly peculiar with it and conscionable appreciated," she said.

"Obviously, it's a household thing, truthful it conscionable seemed right," helium said.

Roma's favourite crockery present is the RCBA.

"Rigatoni, chicken, bacon, alfredo sauce," she said.

"We connection immoderate antithetic Italian dishes, but we bash person each the accepted worldly arsenic well: ravioli, lasagna, tortellini," DiNuzzo said.

The spicy carbonara hits different.

"This is chicken, bacon and peas," DiNuzzo said. "It's not your accepted carbonara. I cognize radical volition say, 'Hey, there's nary ovum and nary cream.' You're perfectly right. This is our twist connected it."

Plates are often paired with reddish vino and beer.

"You can't spell incorrect with the Italian beer," DiNuzzo said. "When you're here, dainty it similar you're successful Italy."

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