{"id":19075,"date":"2011-01-30T23:37:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T03:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/?p=19075"},"modified":"2011-01-30T23:37:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T03:37:44","slug":"il-fornaio-restaurant-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/il-fornaio-restaurant-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Il Fornaio Restaurant Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came back from lunch with a couple of bloggers at Il Fornaio Restaurant in Paolo Alto. This is the first time I&#8217;m in Paolo Alto, the hub of Silicon Valley. At lunch was from Glen Millar from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosper.com\">Prosper.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedigeratilife.com\">SVB<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/agaishanlife.blogspot.com\/\">Agaishan Life<\/a>. (and me off course).<\/p>\n<p>It was an Italian restaurant with very nice deco. I decided to get a Paitto Smeralda &#8211; Mixed grill of marinated scallops, calamari, shrimp with garlic and red chili flakes, braised tomatoes, wilted wild arugula, saut\u00e9ed organic spinach, cannellini beans; grilled ciabatta rubbed with garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. The seafood was wonderfully cooked &#8211; the little squids and scallops, though I felt they had too much spinach instead.<\/p>\n<p>The food was delicious, very well done and frankly speaking, I&#8217;ll go back there in a heartbeat. There&#8217;s just too many stuff I want to try &#8211; like their calamari!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19078\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19078\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilfornaioPiattoSmeralda.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Il Fornaio - PiattoSmeralda\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19078\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piatto Smeralda<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19081\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19081\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilfornaioOmelet.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"ilfornaio Omelet\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19081\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omelette con Gamberetti e Avocado<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19084\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19084\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilfornaioPoachedEggs.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"ilfornaioPoachedEggs\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19084\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uova Alla Benedettina<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilfornaioPizza.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"ilfornaioPizza\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19086\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilfornaioeggs2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilfornaioeggs2.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"ilfornaioeggs2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19088\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample of their menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilfornaiounchmenu.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilfornaiounchmenu.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"ilfornaiounchmenu\" width=\"580\" height=\"543\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19094\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilfornaiobrunchmenu.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilfornaiobrunchmenu.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"ilfornaiobrunchmenu\" width=\"598\" height=\"546\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19095\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclosure<\/b> &#8211; Glen from Prosper.com paid for lunch! Thank You very much Glen. But being who I am, I took a sneak peak at the credit card that he was using and it turns out that it was a <a href=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/wellsfargocreditcards.html\">Wells Fargo credit card<\/a>. To which I would suggest that prosper give their employees an <a href=\"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/businessgoldcard.html\">American Express Business Gold Card<\/a> or something equivalent (looks more business like).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came back from lunch with a couple of bloggers at Il Fornaio Restaurant in Paolo Alto. This is the first time I&#8217;m in Paolo Alto, the hub of Silicon Valley. At lunch was from Glen Millar from Prosper.com, SVB, and the Agaishan Life. (and me off course). 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