Sotto Sopra Restaurant
405 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
410.625.0534
AUGUST, 2010
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In This Issue
Amelia's Pick
They Came, They Ate, They Enjoyed
Elio Scaccio - A Tribute to Italian Classics
I Promessi Sposi in Dieci Minuti
Wine Tasting
News from Italy
Opera Night
Free Transportation to Sotto Sopra
August Birthdays
EVENT CALENDAR

Italian Classics Dinner & Show
Elio Scaccio, performer
Sunday, August 8th

Wine Tasting
Thursday, August 12th

Restaurant Week
Friday, August 13th
through
Saturday, August 28th

Opera Night
Sunday, August 29th

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AMELIA'S PICK
Amelia

I'm going to Italy and Poland - I'm an international baby. No products to buy me this month but a great column about flying with children that my mama read - you might like to read it too.
Flying with kids: Infant, baby, toddler

I'm pretty in pink!

Amelia
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Quote of the Month
Food is our common ground, a universal experience...... James Beard
Cari Amici,
 
What a great welcome response I had from many of you this month. A lot of people have been coming back three and four times in July to sample the new menu and too great satisfaction. We thank you and hope to keep tantalizing your taste buds.
 
In August Monika, the baby and I will be traveling through Poland and Italy for Amelia's baptism and a well deserved break after an intense and sometimes stressful seven months. We will be back Labor Day when I will start contemplating new fall dishes to add to Sotto Sopra's menu.
 
Chef Christian DeLutis will be taking my place while I'm gone. Christian is one of the most talented chefs in town and we have been collaborating together on Restaurant Week's menu. Since our selection is so vast during Restaurant Week we will not be offering any other menu. We automatically have extended it through Saturday, August 28th. There have been a couple changes since we first posted the menu - check it out.

Since we run Restaurant Week for an extended period we are delaying the August birthday gift to September where both August and September birthday recipients can take full advantage of their Sotto Sopra gift.

NatashaMany of you know Natalia Kashevarova, who has been with Sotto Sopra for a number of years. She placed third as the city's best server just last year. We are please to announce that Natalia is Sotto Sopra's manager. Natalia understands our philosophy and truly keeps the customer number one priority.
 
This August we have events before Restaurant Week arrives. We have Elio Scaccio returning for an encore performance of the Italian Classics concert that everyone loved and had so much fun. The evening is $45 per person including the delicious four course dinner and Elio's live performances.
 
Our wine tasting will be held Thursday, August 12th where we will feature five wines plus a Prosecco coming from Italy, Argentina and Portugal. Our own Derrick Vaughn will be your vino tour guide for the evening's tasting.
 
We welcomed lovely new customers in July, even Ty Pennington from Extreme Makeover and enjoyed breaking bread with old friends who dined at Sotto Sopra. To all of you, I say welcome, welcome to Sotto Sopra's lifestyle. You know I have a great outlook on life and my colorful personality makes for some fun nights here at Sotto Sopra - a little bragging doesn't hurt.
 
I hope you will keep coming to Sotto Sopra and as August is concerned, I will take you all in my heart to Italy for some great fun and some truly remarkable food!
 
Until then, remember
 
Eat healthy, but most importantly... eat Italian!
 
Ciao and live life!

Riccardo & Monika Bosio

Riccardo, Monika, piccola Amelia & Sotto Sopra staff


THEY CAME, THEY ATE, THEY ENJOYED
Sotto Sopra Restaurant

A delicious time was had by all last week when Brian Lawrence, Style Magazine, Downtown Diane, Celeste Corsaro of Charm City Food Tours, Dara Bunjon, Dining Examiner and Randi Rom of Baltimore Eats broke bread at Sotto Sopra. Check out what Brian had to say about the evening HERE.

We also received a wonderful write up from the Multicultural Cooking Network, you can read their story HERE

A TRIBUTE TO ITALIAN CLASSICS
Live Performances and Four Course Dinner
featuring recording artist
Elio Scaccio, Tenor

Sunday, August 8, 2010 ~ 5:30 p.m.
(performances start at 6:00 p.m.)


National recording artist, Elio Scaccio, a tenor known for his Italian roots and passion for music will be our guest performer at Sotto Sopra Restaurant entertaining you with your favorite Italian classics. His recent released CD Lettere D'Amore was inspired by over 200 love letters that his father wrote to his mother from 1944 to 1946 in Sicily. Enhancing the evening's enjoyment, Elio has invited additional vocalists for memorable duets. Learn more about Elio and listen to portions of his songs from Lettere D'Amore at his website: http://www.elioscaccio.com/

Elio's renditions of the Italian Classics are the perfect accoutrement for the special menu created specifically for this evening


MENU

1st Course
 Gazpacho

2nd Course
Risotto served with Shrimp, Mussels & Calamari
in a tomato bisque

3rd Course
Beef Braciole
with capers, olives, tomatoes and white wine served with potato lasagna

4th Course
Vanilla Panna Cotta
with mixed berries compote

45 Per Person*

includes dinner and entertainment
(excludes beverages, tax and gratuity)

Reservations are required, please call 410 625 0534

*No other promotions or discounts are applicable to this event
album cover by Art Wachter

I PROMESSI SPOSI IN DIECI MINUTI

This is a  hilarious parody of Oblivion Manzoni's novel "The Betrothed." A sort of musical.



Click the photo to watch and listen to the video
It's in Italian

WINE TASTING
Thursday, August 12 ~ 6:30 p.m.

Wine tasting at Sotto Sopra

Join Sotto Sopra's own Derrick Vaughn as he guides you through a tasting of five wines from Italy, Argentina and Portugal plus a Prosecco. Enjoy lite bites from the Sotto Sopra kitchen to enhance and enrich the enjoyment of the wines.

White:
Fantinel Prosecco, NV (Italy)
Stefano Massone Masera Gavi, 2008 (Piedmont)
Bodega Colome Torrontes, 2008 (Argentina)
 
Red:
Massalino Barbera D'Alba, 2008 (Alba)
Quinta do Crasto, 2007, Douro (Portugal)
Belguardo Seratta, Maremma, 2007 (Tuscany)
 
These are some very fine wines that go extremely well with the Northern Italian food at Sotto Sopra. Derrick says, " guests will have fun and enjoy the selections."


So we can prepare properly
Make reservations - 410 625 0534

only 25 per person

6 wines and lite bites
(excludes tax and gratuity)


 
NEWS FROM ITALY

Daniela UseliHOME COOKING IN ITALY

Lunch time in Venice. Outside Gino's, Dino's, and Giulio's, sweating tourists are served lasagne and lamb chops by Polish waitresses. I, however, am sitting in Giorgio's, and am being offered not food, but photographs by an Italian mamma. "Mia figlia..." She waves another picture. "Mio marito..."  Read the full story at FT.com

 
DRIVING FROM ITALY TO CHINA....WITH NO DRIVER

It's a modern-day version of Marco Polo's journey halfway around the world - but is anyone at the controls? A team of Italian engineers on Tuesday launched what has been billed as the longest-ever test drive of driverless vehicles: a three-month, 8,000-mile road trip from Italy to China. Read the full story at NPR.org.

familyphotoWADING INTO VENICE WITH RICK STEVES

Sinking Venice worth the wade. After decades of debate, Venice finally is doing something about the flooding. But there's still plenty worth seeing in this gorgeous city. Read the
full story at WGNAmerica.com

OPERA NIGHT
Sunday, August 29th ~ 5:30 p.m.
reservations required - 410 625 0534
entertainment and five course Italian dinner
58 per person*
sotto sopra Opera Night
You are cordially invited to Sotto Sopra's Opera Night on Sunday, August 29th when vibrant voices of opera resonate throughout our contemporary dining room. Summer's bounty will fill your plates as will the lyrical voices fill your soul. We hope you will join us.

PERFORMERS

Mrs. Diane Abel, Soprano
Mr. Paul McIlvaine, Tenor
Mr. Tom Hetrick, Piano

MENU

1st Course
Heirloom Tomato Panzanella alla Toscana

2nd Course
Roasted Zucchini and Mint Risotto
with grilled domestic lamb chop

3rd Course
Watermelon/Prosecco Sorbet

4th Course
Honey Lavender Salmon
with broccoli and parsnip puree

5th Course
Dried Cherry, Almond and Orange Semifreddo

58 per person
*(includes dinner & show - excludes beverages, tax and gratuity)

Save the Dates
Future Opera Nights: Sundays - September 19th, October 24th, November 21st & December 12th
 

no other promotions or discounts are applicable to this event
CHARM CITY CIRCULATOR - PURPLE LINE


Free bus transportation to and from Sotto Sopra is available on the new Charm City Circulator's purple line. Get off at Pleasant Street (stop 305) or at Hamilton Street (stop 306) coming up Charles Street.  If you are traveling south on St. Paul Street get off at W. Mulberry Street (stop 316).

Learn more about the Charm City Circulator, current updates and travel times at www.charmcitycirculator.com
AUGUST BIRTHDAY BOYS AND GIRLS

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The Sotto Sopra birthday gift is not applicable during Restaurant Week and that short changes the August birthday recipients. We are going to do a combined August and September birthday gift for the entire month of September.  August birthday boys and girls check back in September.

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