Okay. I’ve been eating authentic Italian cooking since….um…oh yes, BIRTH! 
Give me the spiciest marinara, piles of fresh basil, oregano and marjoram. Give me a whole lotta’ homemade Italian sausage studded with fennel. Give me mountains of homemade pasta. The kind that’s so fresh it cooks in about a minute, and melts in your mouth. The kind my great grandma use to knead, cut, and hang around the kitchen. You haven’t lived until you’ve tasted this fresh, fresh, delicacy. Call it what it is. Italian food snobbery. It’s not a crime, it’s a birthright.
There are quite a few amazing restaurants that serve authentic Italian in the Twin cities. These do not include strip mall, commercialized “Italian” restaurants.
Here is a list of Italian restaurants in the Twin Cities that are worth visiting.
1) Pazzaluna
2) Prima
4) Biella
5) Ciao Bella
6) Cossetta’s
7) Zelo
8 Al Vento
9) i Nonni
10) Acqua
Stia Bene!
~Melissa