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.