Our Table
All family. One table.
A homemade-pasta trattoria off Mercury Road, in Lake Forest.
I · The Name
Tutto famiglia. It means all family.
The name is the whole idea. A table where everyone is family, where the plates are big enough to pass around and the welcome lasts longer than the meal. Out front you will likely meet Vinnie and Samuel. In the kitchen, by the count of the guests who write about it, is a cook who knows exactly what he is doing.
What people say on Google comes back to the same two things. The food is authentic and the servings are generous. And everyone, every time, is kind. That is the part you cannot fake, and it is the part we care most about.
II · The Room
A vineyard on the wall.
A painted Tuscany, a stone arch, the quiet hum of an open kitchen.
The mural runs along one wall, the arch frames the pass where the plates come out. The cloth is maroon, the light is warm, the music sits at a volume you can talk over. It is built to be lingered in.
III · The Plates
Made by hand, plated full.
“Vinnie, Samuel and the food were fabulous. So glad we found this gem. Vinnie's dad is a fabulous cook.”
Catherine S. · Google
IV · How we run it
Three things we hold to.
- 01
Cooked to order, never rushed
Plates come out the way Google guests keep describing them: generous, authentic, made to order. Nothing sits under a lamp waiting. That is the pace of a family kitchen.
- 02
A warm room, a long welcome
A painted Tuscan vineyard on the wall, a stone arch over the open kitchen, maroon cloth on every table. It is the kind of room you settle into and lose track of the hour.
- 03
Bring your own bottle
Corkage is eighteen dollars, so the wine you have been saving has a home at the table. Reservations are taken for special events. Otherwise, call ahead and we will hold one.
V · Come Eat
Come sit at the table.
Pickup, dine-in, or a tray for the family.
