For those of you looking for a romantic date night and preferring to skip the Valentine's Day madness, chef Steve Samson and the team at Rossoblu in the Fashion District downtown will be featuring a ?special Southern Italian menu with a five-course, family-style dinner. The menu will be available for one night only, Monday, January 27.Doors to A Trip To The South? ?in the main dining room open at 6:30 p.m.; the price is $120 per person, with wine parings for an additional fee. For Samson, born to an Italian mother and American father, the evening is a nostalgic look back at the many annual family trips he made to Bologna. The abundant menu includes:

Upon Seating:

• House-made bread, anchovy butter, stracciatella
• Marinated Castelvetrano olives
• Chickpea panelle, cracked black pepper, lemon, pecorino

Antipasti:

• Grilled pork meatballs, snap peas, arugula, sieved egg, pecorino sardo
• Crisp octopus, fior di latte, fingerling potatoes, salame piccante
• Marinated trumpet mushrooms, heirloom beans, pickled scallions, pecorino dolce

Primi:

• Rigatoni, chicken liver ragu, mosto cotto, buffalo grana
• Casarecce, braised lamb shoulder, egg yolk, lemon, pecorino

Secondi:

• Fennel-crusted pork chop, citrus and herb salad
• Grilled chicken, preserved lemon, long-cooked broccoli
• Grilled swordfish belly spiedini, caponata, smoked eggplant puree

To Finish:

• Cannoli Siciliani
• Apple crostata with crescenza crema

 

For reservations, go to rossoblula.com/shop/rossoblu-family-reunion-dinner.

Post updated at 11:35 a.m. on January 22, 2020.