Primped Pasta: Osteria Restaurant

A roadside Germantown Pike mealtime asset, Restaurant, otherwise known as Osteria at Evansburg, is perched along the main strip in an easy stop between Collegeville errands.

An early garden salad is easy on the insides with a cup of tartly pressing blue cheese dressing. These freshly colorful greens share the plate well with a chunky piece of tomato, disked cucumbers and the peck of circled onions.

Shrimp corn bisque slides onto the table in simple spoonfuls, creamy and of lightly sweeping sea-provoked reminders for the palate between the crunchy lure of saltines and an able-bodied soup-scooping utensil.

Osteria offers a wide choice variety of pasta possibilities including spaghetti, angel hair, penne, linguini, rigatoni, spinach ravioli, cheese ravioli and gnocchi.

But the saucily done Orsognese tucks into a deep-bottomed plate decorously with boastfully sized spinach-filled ravioli, alluring the senses impeccably as taste buds waltz a bit by fork labors. With plenty of brightly prepared tomato inspirations sweeping through this entrée, its pecorino—a hard Italian cheese made from sheep’s milk—accompanies plate pushed minutes as fresh mozzarella and basil waft out reminders of the much-anticipated warmer season through each heaping bit of nibbling.

Gorgonzola sauce as a dish is done with the thickly bite-heavy and delicately tricky to pronounce gnocchi, or miniature dumplings gluttonously glazed in parmesan and cream.  This entrée does wonders for tongue pleasing a cheese connoisseur who might just have been holding out for something perfectly milk-persuaded and redone in another fashion through a bowl full of one pined for dairy favorite.

Find out more about the Osteria Restaurant—at 3835 Germantown Pike in Collegeville, PA19426— www.osteriaevansburg.com.