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Scallops with baby spinach and truffle parmesan cream, topped with crispy pancetta.
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NOVEL ITALIAN
TKTKTKTKTKt Paul Verica brings a simpler
version of the city’s hottest food trend to NoDa
BY TAYLOR BOWLER PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER TAYLOR
A WAVE OF NEW ITALIAN restaurants has crashed over Charlotte in the past two years: osterias, gourmet pizza places, Venetian wine bars. They’ve opened in affluent areas where upscale restaurants tend to congregate, like uptown, SouthPark, Dilworth, and Myers Park. But Paul Verica, a two-time James Beard semifinalist, ventured outside the nouveau-Italian trend’s bubble in February when he opened Orto in the Novel NoDa project.
JULY 2021 // CHARLOTTE
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