Hours/Location
Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
Saturday 5 p.m.-11 p.m.
Sunday Brunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Sunday Evening 5 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
HAPPY HOUR
4:30-6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Complimentary best pizza in town
and drink specials (wine, cocktails, and beer).
Ciao Bello
5161 San Felipe St.
@ Sage Rd.
Houston TX 77056
(713) 960-0333
Tony often says that “for Italian food to be authentic, it must be a balance of the classic and the creative.”
When he opened the original Tony’s nearly a half century ago, there was no FedExed burrata (the famous creamy mozzarella from Apulia) or lobster flown in daily from the Mediterranean. Back then, Tony had to recreate the flavors of his native Italy with locally grown and sourced ingredients. “When I first went down to the harbor to buy seafood,” he remembers fondly, “the fishermen used the calamari for bait!”
This spirit is the inspiration for fedelini (a classic Italian long noodle pasta) tossed with Gulf Coast lump crab (above, photo by Jessica Matos). And it reflects the great tradition of Italian cuisine in our country, where Italians have adapted local ingredients to reproduce the classic flavors and textures of Italian gastronomy.
When we tasted the fedelini with lump crab the other day, we were transported to Venice where long noodles are tossed with the famous granceola (spider) crab of the Venetian lagoon.
