monkey nonsense

last wednesday, a couple of my coworkers and i went to famous luigi’s right by our office.  it’s this small, italian place with a sunroom.  once we walked in, it had a small italian eatery-like feel to it.  one of my coworker and i ended up getting pasta.  he got some white sauce spaghetti… i wanna say it included the word toscana because then we talked about the zuppa toscana (sp?) soup at olive garden, i got the rigatoni rustici because i was craving sausage and our waiter suggested it.  i  liked it, but it had a bit too much ricotta cheese for my liking.  my other coworker got a meatball sandwich that looked pretty tasty as well.  i did notice that other tables had pizza which looked pretty good, maybe something to try on another visit.

then today, i was looking up the resturant online and found its history page.  apparently, famous luigi’s is famous for introducing pizza to DC!!  … ‘cept it was founded in 1943.  isn’t that kind of late for pizza to be introduced?