The Room
Fabio Trabocchi opened Sfoglina on Connecticut Avenue in 2016, the casual-Italian sister to his Fiola fine-dining flagship, dedicated to the proposition that DC needed a serious pasta-focused dining room. The format has expanded to three DC locations.
The dining room is intentionally relaxed, exposed brick, a long bar facing an open pasta-rolling counter, banquettes along the eastern wall. The pasta-rolling counter is the room's design centrepiece.
The Food
The pasta programme is the menu's centre of gravity, eight rotating handmade pastas daily, rolled at the open pasta counter. The seasonal-rotating Italian secondi and the small-plate antipasti opening handle the menu's wider draws.
Wine programme is Italian-classic. Cocktails are aperitivi-led. Service is the Trabocchi-group standard.
Best Occasion Fit
First Date: The pasta-rolling counter at Sfoglina is one of Van Ness's most-reliable first-date seats.
Birthday: Birthdays at Sfoglina are warm, pasta-led, casual-Italian affairs the room handles with nine years of practice.
Team Dinner: The back of the dining room handles tables of eight to twelve. The family-style Italian-pasta format scales naturally.
