Tonight we were invited out to dine at Cooper's Hawk's newest Florida restaurant 📍Piccolo Buco which is in the Carrollwood area. This is the first Piccolo Buco in Florida and they are serving up contemporary Neapolitan-style pizza directly from Rome and that also includes gluten-free crust as well!
You can explore the full Tasting Room to pick up your Wines of the Month and sample award-winning Cooper's Hawk favorites along with a collection of Italian classics.
We had an awesome time. I can tell you that even though I have never been to Rome the pizza definitely is not like any I have had before. The ingredients were very fresh some locally sourced and some flown directly from Rome. Every pizza is hand cut at the table and served to you. We all had different small menus for this friends and family event so not everyone ate the same thing! We ended up with two pizzas one pepperoni and one yellow Margarita which was pretty interesting having a pizza made with yellow tomatoes (it was sweeter).
The stand out dishes for me was the Ceasar salad which was made with Calabrian chilli oil. It was so good, well seasoned, they chilli oil made it a little spicy and more flavorful and delicious cheese.
The beef was really good. It was (Sorry Cooper's) dare I say better than the one they serve at the main restaurant. It was delicious and although I wanted mashed potatoes for the texture it is still very very good with the polenta.
The pizza situation. So, this was my very first time having a Neoplitan Pizza. I have never actually been anywhere where the restaurant was abke to make one gluten-free and cross contamination free. They do have a pizza oven that they cook in and they do plan to fire the gluten-free pizzas in the same oven as the regular one. I will tell you at a certain temperature the protien in gluten is supposed to be destroyed so a lot of places say it's safe to eat. If you have Celiacs and you are extremely sensitive like less than 20 ppm (parts per million of gluten) just ask them to fire it in the regular oven.
They cooked our pizzas in the regular oven and they were great. The dough was cooked evenly and had a nice thickness to the crust. It in general looked like how everyone else's pizza looked, it just had gluten-free crust. I was really glad they did that as well because I am highly sensitive to gluten.
The focus is on wine which is not a shock and they have a lot of it. They have the same wine Club as Cooper's Hawk and you can go to either locations and use your membership to do tastings and pick up wine.
The restaurant is opening
October 20th.
This was a hosted event, not sponsored and all opinions are my own.
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