Do This: Garlic Tasting Menu at Va Pensiero

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Jul 20, 2009 9:40PM

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Garlic can work as either an aphrodisiac or a major turn-off and is on the short list of foods one should eat to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Not to mention its ability to ward off vampires.

Va Pensiero (1566 Oak Ave., Evanston, 847-475-7825) is celebrating garlic with a special $39 tasting menu available tomorrow through Sunday. the menu includes dishes such as garlic parmesan soup, roasted garlic flan with pickled golden beets and bacon-wrapped pan roasted quail with roasted garlic couscous in a madeira sauce. If the tasting menu is too much, each of the items listed on the five-course menu can also be served a la carte.