Mission Accomplished!

We did it!

Thirty-three places in one year, in one neighborhood.  All locally owned and each one unique.  What a trip.

One thing ardent followers of this blog may notice (Are there any ardent followers of this blog?) is that we have two left to blog about.  I'll cover the final resturant in this post.  Mel will cover a place we visited way back in September, in her own time, at some future unspecified date...maybe.  Every time I ask her about this post, she laconically states, "I just haven't put my mind to it."

So Charlie Gittos.  We saved this for the final one as it is one of the more ritzy places in The Hill neighborhood.  It was a bit of a celebration for us.

In addition to this meal accomplishing our "Hill of a Year" goal, we also accomplished some other goals. We repayed a favor, and took a good friend along and met new friend.  Dr. Fidy and Liz joined us for a lovely evening earlier this month.

As expected, the wait staff was very attentive and extremely helpful. And, as one of the places on The Hill that claims to be the birthplace of Toasted Ravioli, our server encouraged us to try theirs.  So we did.  You can see some of the origin stories of T-Rav's by clicking on this text.

Charlie Gitto's menu is well balanced and not overwehlming, and there were a few specials offered that evening. You can see it here.

Each of us had a different meal.  Mel, of course, got the Eggplant Napoleon.  This is layers of breaded eggplant fried, filled with layers of Charlie Gittos special blend of cheeses, roasted sweet peppers, pesto, pomodoro and Asiago cream.

I got the Chicken Saltimbocca.

Here's some pictures of the other dishes for those of you intersted in pictures of other people's food.

It was all very good.

To top it all off...the final dining experience in our "Hill of a Year" ...we got the cannoli.  Oh my, this was good.  The shells are made at Missouri Baking (the first place we ate at in our "Hill of a Year" adventure....way back on January 6th), and then Charlie Gitto's fills them with their own special filling.  It was a perfect way to finish our year of dining out.

Keep in mind that our goal was to eat at every place in "The Hill" neighborhood in 2017.  It was not to blog about it all within the calendar year.  So we can proudly state, "Mission Accomplished," with this post.  And who knows...Mel may "put her mind to it" within the few days remaining in the year.

And now for the obligatory Mel and Bob pic in front of the joint.

It certainly has been a "Hill of a Year!"