Gocciolina ★ 4.6
Gocciolina is Durham's handmade-pasta destination with fresh and dried pastas, a natural-wine list and precise cooking. Named Best Italian by Indy Week 2024.
OrderCacio e pepe, Strozzapreti with lamb ragu, Tiramisu
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.
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