CUCINA enoteca (Irvine)

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http://www.yelp.com/biz/cucina-enoteca-irvine-3

Make your own pizza (kids menu, $8, totally worth it for the experience)

The finished product

Stuff fried squash blossoms

Frutti di marre with squid ink linguine

Short rib pappardelle (best dish of the night, wife and I were fighting over this, love the broad noodles)
Not our photo, stole from yelp, pasta was devoured before I could take a pic

Morgan Pinot Noir (not bad, they charge regular retail for wine instead of the normal jacked up restaurant price)

Kid friendly, takes opentable, decent price for wine (no corkage on Sundays if you buy one of their wines over $20), and killer pappardelle.  We'll be back for more.  Feels like a cross between eating at the Lab and Hollywood but with kids.

 

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Have been avoiding that place because of the prices... but now we have to go for the kids make-your-own pizza.

 

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Kids meal pizza also comes with a drink and ice cream desert, great deal.  Our waiter offered the make your own pizza, not sure if it's the norm but a great idea to get the kids involved and it helpled my picky eater.  Bill came out to be $100 but that's with the $26 wine.  Next time we'll skip an entree and just go with the pizza, appetizer, and pappardelle.  We ate most of the pizza anyways (my 3 year old don't eat much).  Only place in town to get decent wine with dinner, decent food, kid friendly, and under $80.