Andersonville's Northern Italian Trattoria
Anteprima on Clark Street has been Andersonville's reference Northern Italian for two decades. The format is the proper trattoria: handmade pastas, careful regional cooking, a small-plate Italian wine list, and the kind of family-run hospitality that distinguishes a neighbourhood institution from a destination room.
The cooking is traditional Northern Italian with restaurant-grade discipline: pastas rolled daily, considered seasonal mains, the kinds of regional dishes that reward an unhurried evening.
What to Order
Handmade pasta in the day's preparation. The kitchen rolls daily and the seasonal preparations are reliably the strongest part of the menu. Risotto in regional preparations; secondi rotated with the season. The wine list rewards a Northern Italian bottle ordered with care.
The Format
The dining room is small and warm. Tables are well-spaced for conversation; the staff are unhurried.
Best Occasion: First Date
Anteprima is a quiet Andersonville first-date win. The intimacy, the seriousness of the cooking, the careful wine list. Combine into the kind of evening that conventional first-date rooms struggle to produce.