Review: New restaurant Carlucci’s brings fast-casual Italian food to Monte Vista in San Antonio - mexican restaurant main dishes

When Clay Bergman made a plan for Carlucci in Monte Vista, he took a special approach: "The Italian food that was invented when the Italians came to the United States.
"In the competition near Barbaro, Capparelli is on the main menu, and even on the peripheral menu, carlucci needs a hook, if it is to thrive at the end of last year to host and bid farewell to the Mexican restaurant Luz Mia.
Along with business partner and chef Joe Brango, Bergman produced a menu of hot and cold Italian sandwiches, salads and pasta dishes ranging in price from $8 to $14.
The order took place at the front desk and the food was brought to the table by a waiter who took over the service experience from there.
This is a quirky blue and white building that can accommodate about 45 people in two restaurants with dinner in one --
Board tile floors and posters printed with pastel colors and Italian landscape paintings style and another.
Sandwiches on hand stand in front and center
The powdered menu board and a meatball put six solid meatballs in a thick, bright marinade, on a crispy roasted hoagie rollIts $11.
95 pricetag does not include any sides, and the $3 cavatappi macaroni salad makes the equation tend to $15 for lunch, which makes its value points tense.
Stemmy cousin broccoli rabe is a sandwich stuffed with a bitter taste of juicy roast pork and broccoli to get the premium train back on track for $9.
25, not only for a large amount of aromatic meat, but also for the opportunity to taste Philadelphia's "other" sandwiches, arguably better than the city's iconic cheese steak.
Add a $1 sour cucumber and onion and add some acidic sparks.
At the Carlucci restaurant, a full pasta can be served with soup, salad and pasta.
Start with Italian wedding soup ($5 ).
95), there is a rich, opaque reserve filled with the basics of the milebova, plus green food and four multi-section meatballs that reinforce and season classic Italian soup.
A Caesar salad hits the check mark of the modern midline Caesar: shaved Parmesan and white dressing are not full of pasture, but didn't load the cho fish I wanted in the right Caesar, especially as big as a dinner salad, but for $8.
$25 for lunch and $9 for lunch. 50 at dinner.
A bowl of spaghetti sauce ($12 ).
$99 for lunch and $14 for dinner), which makes the original simple red sauce and grated parmesan more mysterious than the standard dry pasta.
Carlucci's early display made it a notch higher than the sandwich shop, somewhere nearby --
Sha Si United and trattoria with upward mobility ambitions.
Of course, it doesn't have the intoxicating hubris style of Barbaro (wine and beer licenses are in production) and there's no mainstream scene experience with Capparelli, but it's-between —adding a fast-
Italian food and leisure options in Monte Vista. 138 E. Mistletoe Ave. , 210-320-
0217, there is no network 11. m. -9 p. m. Monday-