Review: At Inizio, Buffalo's best fresh pasta program is just the beginning
'By hand' credo lifts Michael Gibney's entire Elmwood Village menu
At Inizio, Michael Gibney’s Elmwood Village restaurant specializing in fresh pasta, what gets people in the door the first time is, naturally, noodles.
A marvelous menagerie of pasta, tubes and cockscombs, priest-stranglers and guitar spaghetti, emerge from the kitchen dressed for the moment.
Spring brings basil pesto so aromatic you can enjoy it passing your table, to land before a neighbor. Cacio e pepe, pecorino and black pepper sauce, clings to mafalde, named “little queens” for its resemblance to ruffled robes of royalty.
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