Fiamma Pizza & Pasta

This large pizzeria and pasta house in Vernon Hills has several things to recommend it. A huge central bar dominates the dining room, ringed by dark woods, red-checked tablecloths and flat-screen TVs tuned to sports. Frank Sinatra and vintage jazz play on the sound system. Fiamma offers a full bar, with a wine list of reasonably priced global options and plenty of by-the-glass choices, draft beers and martini choices like the Vernon Hills Valium (Midori, Malibu, blue Curacao and pineapple juice). The portions are ample and the menu big on comfort foods. The fritto misto, battered fried calamari with a few shrimp and artichoke hearts, served with a fresh-tasting, chunky marinara, was easily the best dish we tried, with its crisp, light, ungreasy coating and tender seafood. The artichokes provide a fine counterpoint

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• Vernon Hills
• food
• pizza
• pasta
• restaurant
• sandwich
• salad
• Italian
• Illinois