Café Amarcord

Café Amarcord serves New American food with a clear Italian hand: housemade pastas, fresh seafood, and a menu that turns over seasonally rather than sitting static for years. Housed on Main Street behind a modest facade, the dining room is warm and dim, its walls hung with vintage movie posters that evoke somewhere between an old European café and a small cinema lobby.

Duck ragu, mussels in garlic and white wine, and grilled calamari are the dishes most people remember, and the rib eye and Spaghetti Gitara come up often enough on regulars' orders to count as house specialties. Carpaccio and rabbit show up when the kitchen's feeling ambitious, and starters like mozzarella with stracciatella and cream or baked beets with goat cheese make a good opening round before the pasta arrives.