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Bonelli’s Italian Cafe

Warning: Not for people fasting. Do not read until after sunset. 🙂

We have a real weakness for Italian food, so after we had passed this cafe (at 1217 9th Ave. N.) a couple times, it came to mind one late afternoon as we were trying to figure out where to have lunch.

The welcome was warm. We had a nice booth. It’s too hot to eat outside, at least for me, but there is a lot of outside seating that looks like fun at night or on a cooler day than mid-summer-in-Pensacola. Great smells.

We shared a Caprese salad, which was beautiful and had great big tasty leaves of fresh basil and good olive oil; secrets of success:

I had a pizza, I believe one of the make-it-up-yourselves kind. They offer up a lot of options, but I really love that one option is like four ingredients of your choice, because I love choices and I have my definite favorites. This one is all veg – red onions, olive pesto, maybe capers and maybe artichoke hearts, I can no longer remember anything except that it knocked my socks off. It was beautiful, and it was delicious:

AdventureMan ordered a Panini; he also got to choose his own ingredients, and he said it was the best:

We couldn’t resist. We had to try the tiramisu, but it was so good, I didn’t get a photo!

This is one of those default places – when you want good food you know you can count on with little fuss, this is a go-to place.

August 9, 2011 - Posted by intlxpatr | Eating Out, Food, Living Conditions, Pensacola, Ramadan