SPQR Restaurant Review

408 days ago - The restaurant group that gave us A-16, a culinary trip along the ankle of Italy, now takes us up highway A-1 north of Naples to Rome for SPQR, a new Roman osteria. If the A-16 juggernaut was built on authentic Neopolitan thin crust, wood-fired pizza, the soul of the smaller SPQR resides in excitingly chewy house-made dried pasta sauced with traditional Roman simplicity. When you bite into SPQR pasta it fights back, springy, feisty, almost meaty, and chefs Nate Appleman and Daniel Holzman treat it as the main attraction.