372903 Tue Feb 20 04:17:43 -0800 2007 5 14 Washington DC & Baltimore Area 0 2309383 Does anyone know the name of an Italian restaurant that used to be in Dupont Circle and that served scrumptious "drunken pork chop" and a great rabbit dish?? Thanks for any information! Kerrygold Tue Feb 20 04:17:43 -0800 2007 75750 kerrygold 1 2309473 Was the restaurant located slightly below street level? Tue Feb 20 05:31:18 -0800 2007 2309383 61567 Indy 67 1 2309491 Do you mean Gusti's at 18th and M? The place had a lot of ironwork out front, but it's now a Chipotle. Tue Feb 20 05:39:57 -0800 2007 2309383 12359 monkeyrotica 1 2309584 Anna Maria's? I remember going there in the '70s. Tue Feb 20 06:22:26 -0800 2007 2309383 10624 MikeR 2 2309626 Anna Maria's is still there on Connecticut, but they don't have drunken pork chops or rabbit on their online menu. Neither does La Tomate. Tue Feb 20 06:41:39 -0800 2007 2309584 12359 monkeyrotica 1 2310046 Maybe you mean Cantina d'Italia, Washington's first Northern Italian restaurant. It had a hand-written menu that none of us could read, that changed every few weeks. It did offer fabulous stewed rabbit and pork dishes that nobody in Francophile Washington knew a thing about. They sold more gnocchi than McD's sold fries since it was the hottest thing in town for the expense account crowd. The prices were right up there with Lion D'Or that was across the intersection at Conn and M. The restaurant was a half story down in a basement. They had the No. Italian market locked up until Tiberio opened a few years later and then the floodgates opened and red sauce was totally outré for several years. Tue Feb 20 08:52:45 -0800 2007 2309383 32444 MakingSense