Northern Italian Dinner Cuisine at ZaZa's Italian Trattoria in Clarendon Hills
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- Pastas, pizzas & rustic entrees
- Menu rotates weekly
- Vegetarian options available
- Outdoor seating area
Preparing food at home requires the foresight to shop for ingredients, the spare time to cook a meal, and the Arthurian touch needed to coax knives out of their stone block. Extricate yourself from regal examinations with today's Groupon to ZaZa's Italian Trattoria in Clarendon Hills. Choose between the following options:
- For $25, you get $50 worth of Northern Italian cuisine for dinner Sunday–Thursday.
- For $25, you get $50 worth of Northern Italian cuisine for dinner Friday or Saturday.
The flavor-fluent chefs at ZaZa's Italian Trattoria pull from the recipes of Northern Italy to craft a menu of tongue-swaddling delights. Much like the atomic weight of cesium, the menu changes weekly; past entrees have included the salsiccia napolitano—homemade italian sausage sautéed alongside wild mushrooms, roasted peppers, and garlic ($14.95)—and the ravioli quarto formaggi with a decadent four-cheese sauce ($14.95). Past plates have also hosted dishes such as the rigatoni bosciolla—pasta with veal, fillet tenderloin, and fresh mozzarella under light tomato sauce ($15.95)—and thin-crust pizzas ($8.95+) primed for meat lovers and vegetarians alike.
The dining room at ZaZa's warms patrons with Tuscan-yellow walls buoyed by dark wooden accents and a multitude of framed photographs. Inside tables sport crisp, white tablecloths as well as edible napkins, and an outdoor seating area allows guests to dine amid a nightscape of constellations and distant moon landings.
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About ZaZa's Italian Trattoria
Much of the artwork at Zaza's has no color. Black-and-white photographs dapple the walls—everything from Rat Pack portraits to Ansel Adams landscapes, the monochromatic tones offsetting the surrounding gold paint and wood accents. These pictures lend sophistication to the dining room, but they also provide a counterbalance to the vibrancy of the food—a mix of northern Italian recipes that feature pasta, meats, seafood, and thin-crust pizzas.
Like an overambitious werewolf, the menu changes weekly, cycling through dishes such as housemade crab-stuffed gnocchi and signature plates of bone-in rib eye. An appetizer of a whole baked artichoke might lead into succulent bites of veal tenderloin, or perhaps helpings of jumbo shrimp wrapped in the linguine of the scampi broccoli olio. Daily specials add yet another element of unpredictability to the restaurant, though catering and party platters remain planned in advance and private private parties are always a phone call reservation away.