By Andrea Damewood

Burrasca's menu offers no pork belly, no truffle butter, no fleeting menu item placed there to please the Yelpers. It's fucking refreshing. Like a puff of oregano-scented air over the streets of SE Clinton, Burrasca is putting out rustic, traditional—and yes, sometimes imperfect—Italian that speaks honestly and without pretense.

There's no kids' menu, but they do offer to make pasta with butter for the bambinos. There are several bottles of wine under $25, including the red La Bastarda for just a Jackson. Burrasca opened a few months ago as a full-service restaurant, leaving behind its previous life as a food cart run by Florence-born Paolo Calamai and his wife, Elizabeth Petrosian.

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