Restaurant: Pulcinella Italian Kitchen
Location: 1310 Chain Bridge Rd, McLean, VA 22101.
Date: November 21, 2023
Cuisine: Italian
Rating: Casual Italian Cafe
My parents love this extremely casual Italian eatery near their house. VERY casual and VERY Italian-American for my style.
A weird thing that happens when people get older, even aging foodies, is that their food taste “reverts.”
They have no license, so it’s BYOB.
Bread.
Burrata salad. Not bad actually.
Beet salad.
Fried Calamari. They “cut” the squid with zucchini (probably for cost reason).
Meatballs. A bit bland. Lots of filler. Big though.
Basic pasta.
Eggplant Parm.
Pounded chicken with peppers.
Chicken Piccata.
Veal Marsala. Did taste of marsala. Kinda tasty, but a bit sweet. Classic supermarket mushrooms.
Branzino.
Spaghetti comes with everything.
Tiramisu was ok.
And very AL DENTE green beans.
Overall, it was good for what it was. But just not really “up to my standards.” Portions were large and service was very friendly.
