Dining/Drinking

If Terzo at 50th and Penn isn’t the best Italian restaurant in the Twin Cities, it is at least the best Italian restaurant I have been to in years. I’ll admit that I haven’t thoroughly checked out the three new Italian restaurants that have gotten a lot of buzz lately – Parella, Monello and Il Foro. At first glance, their menus seem pretty similar. I did sample a few of the small plates at Parella in Calhoun Square, which were just okay. Terzo is different. Terzo seems to have fallen off of the foodie crowd’s radar, which is a shame because it is a better and more interesting restaurant than when it opened. When I first reviewed Terzo three years ago, I was not impressed.