Mozza Osteria South of Hollywood

Mozza Osteria is located at 6609 Melrose Ave, LA CA 90038, 323-297-0100. It's next door to Mozza Pizza which I've already entered on those blog a while ago. Mozza Osteria is quite an amazing place. Josh Southwick of Porter Gallery, chose it to toast photographer and bass player Peter Watkinsons birthday. It was a very intimate gathering of friends and we "celebrated". Just the wines alone were absolutely memorable and rich with depth. We didn't know a lot about Italian wines so the wine specialist, of which there were several but Jeff was our wine man of the evening. This dude was spot on with his recommendations. We had a La Sibilla, Falanghina Campi Flegrei 2008 and a Rovera Salicz Salentino Puglia 2006. They knocked our socks off. The white with our appetizers from the mozzarella bar and a red with our pastas. We had braised artichokes with pine nuts, mint pesto and currants; coach farm goat cheese ravioli with fire lillies; orecchiette with sausages and swiss chard; and I had the calf brain ravioli with sage and lemon. For dessert, we shared cioccolatu bittersweet chocolate cake with pergian chocolate and a torta della nonna, honeycomb/ pine nuts.