Yep.
paesanos edge for a long time was their fresh bread, fresh pasta and it was consistency pretty good. Wine is a big deal too and they really have some great values at Lincoln hts if that’s your thing. That one has always been Joe’s baby. My wife and her parents knew Joe well and were patrons from the very beginning.
I remember when she first started taking me there 25yrs ago I thought the food was good but maybe a touch heavy and bland. It’s more in line with the ‘simple’ flavors of traditional Italian comfort food. It’s grown on me and it’s just a solid standby for us. if you have 14 people coming over for a fantasy football draft or orgy, you can call them up and they will have you to-go totally taken care of in 30 min.
Fun little note, Joe is a great guy and true ‘Italian’. By that I mean he lives, laughs and loves. -And by ‘loves’ I mean he would always hire pretty college girls from Trinity as waitresses at McCullough, then Lincoln hts and fuck them. For decades.
One of them would get mad at him or another waitress he was fucking and quit, so he would just get another one. He also has a restaurant in Aspen (mezzaluna’s?) where he does the same thing.
We’ve gotten to know some of the staff really well at Lincoln hts over the yrs and I have always thought to myself Joe is the greatest judge of how wild a girl is compared to her crazy. It’s honestly incredible. He always had chosen people who where typical religious school girls who where looking to be ‘wild’ in college but at the same time were sweet, pretty, measured and understanding.