My tomato allergy means that I haven’t been to a lot of Italian restaurants in the city, because trying to find something on the menu I can eat is a depressing exercise. I’d rather just go have sushi: safe, non-murderous sushi. Yesterday I went to La Spiga for the first time, and it was delicious.

We had the prosciutto appetizer, which is just a bunch of thin slices of meat on a board. I think I could live on prosciutto and bread and olives maybe. For dinner I tried a pasta in a white cream and truffle butter sauce and it was heavenly. My companion had some kind of pasta with rosemary and braised rabbit, which was also delicious, although I don’t think I could eat a whole plate of bunny without getting sad—it violates my “cute-atarian” diet (I don’t eat anything cute).

Oh so anyway my point was that this is a good Italian place to go if you can’t eat tomatoes because they had lots of other options, and it is also good if you CAN eat tomatoes.