Roccos Little Italy

For those of you who are always trying to track down the next great restaurant, especially Italian, you "southsiders" won't have to travel far.

Roccos Little Italy in TInley Park may not be new to all of you, but if you have not eaten there it is a must try location.

I have probably eaten just about every entree on the menu and most of everything else too, and I can say that I have never had a bad meal. Nor bad service. Under the watchful eye of the family who owns the restaurant, the service will never disappoint. I don't think the food will either.

My favorite appetizers are the breadcrumb smothered baked clams, the stuffed artichoke (and it is truly stuffed with breadcrumbs and garlic, swimming in a pool of butter and oil), and the plump baked shrimp. For your main course I would suggest any veal dish and the chicken picatta (or chicken limone as I call it). It comes on a bed of capellini with capers in a white wine butter sauce. If you have been craving lasagna your time has come. Stacked high and firm on the plate, mom never served this so good. Get a meatball or two to top this off. And for a real pasta challenge I would recommend the Gorgonzola raviolis. These are raviolis smothered in a Gorgonzola cheese sauce that may require you to take an extra cholesterol or blood pressure pill when you are finished. If you have to "go", and we all do, this may be one of my choices on how it happens to me (with a Belvidere up and blue cheese olives of course). If it sounds like too much to eat, order as an appetizer so you can try something else on the menu.

Visit them at www.roccoslittleitaly.net

Feel free to tell them Scott sent you...I may already be there though.

Enjoy