Cacio E Pepe Gocciolina appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Cacio e Pepe · Durham
Gocciolina's cacio e pepe is the dish that gets written about most frequently in early reviews of the restaurant: a pasta that in lesser hands becomes gluey or greasy, executed here with the correct emulsification of sheep's-milk pecorino, butter and pasta water. The pasta is made in-house daily. That a restaurant in Durham is producing the best cacio e pepe many Triangle diners have eaten would have been a strange claim a decade ago; Gocciolina makes it unremarkable.