The Little Village

Just a solid Italian restaurant with the best bread and bread pudding anywhere. Seriously it is not a debate. Fairly pricey but you will have a good time.

This was our first visit to Little Village. I've heard so many great things about it so I decided it was time to try them for ourselves. We were seated as soon as we walked in. The restaurants itself has a romantic vibe. Our waiter came over and introduced himself and told us about the specials. They sounded delicious but just a little too expensive for my first visit.

What an awesome experience. It was nice, but not so high class that we felt uncomfortable. It was dark, which I like. The mood was energetic, tables were having fun. I got the beef Florentine cannelloni. It was so good. I usually don't like much red sauce but theirs was so good mixed with the cheese. It was stuffed to the brim with beef that was seasoned well. I really enjoyed it.

This is our new favorite restaurant! My husband and I first came here for our seventh anniversary but we went to the Airline location. The food is absolutely incredible. Every year my husband and I have a fancy Christmas Eve dinner (we usually go to Fleming's) where we order everything we want without worrying about the bill. We loved The Little Village so much when we went for our anniversary date that we decided to start coming here for our big fancy Christmas Eve dinner. Everyone always says to order the bread so we started there and got all of the bread sides as well. The tapenade was perfect as well as the amazing red sauce and roasted garlic. Everything paired so nicely with the stunningly delicious bread. My husband ordered the veal alla parmigiana (you can tell in the picture that he loved it because it's almost completely gone) and I ordered a ribeye with jumbo lump crabmeat and bearnaise sauce. This was easily one of the best steaks I've ever had. We also decided to split the baked lobster mac and cheese (to die for). Everything also came with a side salad and a potato or vegetable of the day. We couldn't finish the cheddar mashed potatoes or half of the lobster mac so we got those to go. We thought we didn't have room for dessert but our waiter, Jeff, talked us into the sticky toffee pudding cake. It was a gingerbread-esque cake served with caramel gelato and warm toffee sauce. We ate every single bite. I will say that this restaurant is on the pricier side but definitely worth every penny.

The servers push the wine menu too aggressively. You can definitely tell they are trying to up group bill total for tips. Avoid seafood and the wines on special. Otherwise amazing. The group garlic knot is a must.