GioBatta Alimentari

GioBatta was lovely! We met there for lunch. I had called ahead about handicapped access- there's a little 2-in step up into one of the doors. The owner had a special ramp made for us! We were a group of six so we got to try a lot of things. We had pasta Bolognese, Spaghetti a la Vongole, gluten free pasta Carbonara and spinach ravioli with brown butter sauce. Everything was delicious. It's great to have the option of real homemade pasta that is gluten free. Everybody ate more than they'd planned to. And with an aperol Spritz in hand, it felt like we were actually in Italy.

Mostly good Italian food. I liked the gluten free pasta a lot. But the “puréed minestrone” soup was full of puréed greens, and had no resemblance to minestrone. Worse, the place was so loud, on a Friday evening, that I couldn’t talk to my neighbor even when we were both shouting. If ever a restaurant needed an acoustic ceiling, it’s this one.