New bambino on the block

NAMED AFTER A FOURTH-GRADER, RESTAURANT OLIVIA BRINGS CREATIVE PASTA TO THE CORNER OF DOWNING AND ALAMEDA

Susan Fornoff, S.F.

Restaurant Olivia Pasta and creative Italian • Credit a fourth-grader with the transformation of five-year-old, north-of-Wash-Park Café Marmotte into a ristorante. The trio that opened Bistro Georgette, acclaimed for its Croque Madame and other French classics, apparently was so bewitched by Italy-loving Olivia Hartley, they turned their newly acquired French spot into a pasta destination and named it after the youngster. Judging from the Wednesday night we visited, Restaurant Olivia already has bewitched a neighborhood that had taken to French cuisine. The magic spell consists of seven starters, eight pastas, and three entrees. Appetizers reach far beyond the standard “soups and salads,” and should not be skipped. The French Onion Arancini ($16), Olivia’s nod to Marmotte, is less a soup than a delectable French onion sauce accompanying fried balls of…

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Denver Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2020

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