I decided to order off the Restaurant Week menu that Ziti’s had, thinking that it would give me the best selection and would be the best representation of what the restaurant had to offer. To start my meal off, I ordered the eggplant rollatini, which was a pan fried eggplant filled with ricotta, prosciutto and onions. The eggplant was doused in mozzarella that added a creamy texture to the dish. The marinara that covered the plate was also very good, although it could have used a little more salt and herbs, such as basil to brighten up the flavor s just a tad. For my meal, I ordered the lobster ravioli. These raviolis were stuffed with lobster and ricotta cheese in a lobster cream sauce. The plate came with six raviolis to an order but were almost seemed to be drowned in the cream sauce, although I do have to say it made for great mopping up with bread after they were finished. The pasta had a lot of lobster meat and the pasta was still al dente…which is difficult to do with raviolis. As for my dessert, I ordered the house made cannoli. It came on a massive plate which made the cannoli look extremely small in comparison. However, the cannoli was filled with sweet cream and the shell had a delightful crunchy texture. All in all, it was a good way to end the meal. -ED
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This order needed a lot of help with its appearance. It looked less like a plate of ravioli and more like a bowl of orange topped with orange and a slight dusting of parsley. The order contained approximately eight ravioli, which was a decent amount. While small compared with other dinners at the table, I wasn’t really expecting enough to take home when I ordered lobster.
When I bit into the ravioli, the taste of the lobster meat was overshadowed by the taste of the pink cream sauce. The sauce was tasty, however, and made a good accompaniment to the remaining bread on the table. It would have been nice to see a couple of chunks of lobster in the lobster cream sauce to get the full effect. Overall, the dish earned a solid “B”. -BJH
Reviewed at Ziti’s Italian Trattoria.
I decided to go with Oscar’s Special, which included chicken, shrimp, spinach, prosciutto, mozzarella and a side pasta. The first thing you could taste from the dish was the sauce, it was very rich and creamy. All of the meat and seafood was cooked just right. However, I did have trouble with the shrimps due to the fact that they were cooked with the tails on. I received a very unexpected case of crunchiness when I bit into one. Overall, the dish was very enjoyable. One note that I should mention is that there could have been a little less salt in the dish. Because you were already cooking with ingredients that tend to be salty to begin with (i.e. prosciutto, shrimp and mozzarella) there wasn’t a need to overly salt the dish as you could have relied on the saltiness of those ingredients to do the seasoning for you and the dish would have been dynamite. The side pasta however was not what I was expecting though. The pasta was cooked perfectly al dente, but the marinara was not as sweet as it should have been, and almost seemed from a can or a jar. I think that a nice addition to the dish was to have included the pasta in the dish itself. It would have given it much more texture, that creamy sauce could have balanced out and had something to adhere to and may not have made the dish so salty. When the night was over, however, I went home full and satisfied from the healthy portions. -HW