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The FeatureThe short rib returns — twelve plates, no encores
OutsidePatio nights: golden hour under the oak
The RitualSunday sauce, from six in the morning
6 tables left tonight ◆Braised short rib pappardelle — 12 plates ◆Patio open, 74° ◆Tiramisu is back ◆3 new guest clips screened today ◆
Braised short rib pappardelle · plated at the pass, 6:04 PM
Tonight · The Feature
Eight hours in the oven. Gone in twelve plates.
Mauri starts the short rib before the first espresso — bone-in, seared hard, then left to collapse into red wine and San Marzano until the meat gives up entirely. It goes over pappardelle we roll and hand-tear in the back room, because a braise this patient deserves pasta with edges.
She makes twelve plates. Not eleven, not a lucky thirteenth for a friend of the house. When the twelfth leaves the pass, the dish comes off the board until she starts again at dawn.
$3412 plates tonight
0:08The pull, at the pass
— from tonight’s kitchen notes
The Wall
Filmed at these tables.
drag
0:08SCREENED
the short rib arriving 😭
@dana.eats.sj·Fri 8:05 PM·2,314 views
PHOTOSCREENED
someone order the amaro pour
@jules.and.joon·Sat 8:40 PM·3,051 views
0:10SCREENED
cheese pull in 4k
@marcusvibes·Sat 9:12 PM·1,876 views
PHOTOFROM THE HOUSE
the room, filling — 6 PM
Mauri’s Kitchen·tonight
0:08SCREENED
the vodka rigatoni theory is real
@theweeknighters·Sun 6:22 PM·942 views
PHOTOFROM THE HOUSE
golden hour seats
Mauri’s Kitchen·tonight
At the table? Film your moment.
Tap the table code. Screened, then on the Wall in minutes.
Tonight’s thank-you: a pour of the house amaro.
Every clip is screened before it appears. The Wall belongs to the house — it greets every guest who looks us up.
The Profile
Meet Mauri. She never leaves the floor.
The woman holding the menu is the one who answers. Her AI twin speaks with her voice, knows tonight’s board, and takes your order any hour — 2 PM or 2 AM.
Mauri Rossi — chef-owner.Her AI twin takes your order, any hour.
🔇 MUTED
Mauri · taking ordersAI twin of the ownerONLINE
She answers like Mauri, because she learned from Mauri.
The Plates
The menu, tonight
What you see is what the kitchen has — availability is live.
Live from the board · 4:32 PM
Burrata & first tomatoes
$16
Heirlooms that arrived this morning, warm honey-chili drizzle.
first of the season
Wood-fired margherita
$19
Ninety seconds in the oak fire. Basil torn at the last moment.
from the oak oven
Rigatoni alla vodka
$24
The one the Wall keeps filming. Calabrian chili, cream, restraint.
Off the coals, over polenta. Ask for it gluten-free — it already is.
gluten-free
Tagliatelle of the day
$22
Whatever the market said this morning. Today: lemon, black pepper.
changes daily
Sundays Only
Sunday sauce, from six in the morning
One pot, five hours, the whole dining room smelling like somebody’s nonna is back there. Served family-style until the pot says stop. Ask Mauri to hold you a table — Sundays go first.
86’d items leave this page the moment the kitchen calls them. No sad phone calls, no surprises.
Golden hour, under the oak — the seats everyone films.
Mauri · taking ordersAI twin of the owner
ONLINE
