Casa Carbone - Aurora

So. My husband and I had a date night and with a baby it has been a while. We decided we wanted some Italian and chose here. Let me tell you... I have been here before and it has always been amazing and tonight was even better. I ordered the farfalle and my husband had the squid ink linguine. Both incredible. Seriously made with love. The shrimp in the farfalle was perfectly seasoning and even my husband's octopus was tender. I hate octopus and loved it. Claudio our server was soo fantastic and reccomended the best things. And then.. We had dessert. Holy batman. Listen. Seriously listen. The pistachio tart with orange is one of the best desserts I've had and it's seasonal so it's only there for a limited time. So get it now. Now I say! It blew my mind. The owner also is soo nice and always remembers a customer. Anyway..highly reccomend.

Since the restaurant was on the verge of changing their menu, a lot of the items were not available like osso bucco and some other. There were a lot of special items like over 10+ which was verbally dictated by our server. He must have good memory to have memorized all these items. All that was good but he wasn't wearing a mask and so did all the other servers in the restaurant. I personally prefer our servers to wear mask because they are in close contact with so many guests. Anyways this is my personal preference as I am aware that mask mandate has been lifted. So for him to talk so much, I am sure some saliva may have spread on our table which was a turn off for me. Aside from that, Squid ink seafood pasta was a bit on the salty side and the portion was small. I don't think it was worth the $38 price tag. The pizza was soft and thin though but I wasn't aware that the sauce was spicy. Stopped by this restaurant when we visited a friend in Aurora. Sorry but I probably won't be back.

The place is amazing. Very clean restaurant, the food is good and the employees are people.

Caramelle chocolate pasta (7 tiny pieces, very expensive) was the highlight of an otherwise average meal. Coal fired oven was overused on overwhelming radicchio salad and underused on flavourless pizza crust. Caesar salad was too sweet. Radicchio salad could benefit from being deconstructed so that the fennel and other ingredients are a bright clean taste contrast. Friendly and casual atmosphere: this is not fine dining but it has expensive fine dining prices. It's in a suburban strip mall. Locally owned.

This place serves gourmet Italian Italian (not Italian American food). Calamari Grigliatti was decent but a rather small serving. Grilled calamari is quite unusual most places fry theirs. Got the linguini with gorgonzola sauce walnuts. It was a bit small but good, with a generous portion of gorgonzola walnuts. Pizza capricciosa was good with a nice char on the crust, though my dining companion thought there was a bit too much char. If you have a big appetite you may end your meal still hungry, since they don't serve bread.