Cuisine:

• Italian
• Others
• Coffee Houses

Café Sistina Description:
A favorite among Honolulu’s casual Italian restaurants, Sistina is located in a nondescript bank building, which at least offers ample parking. This is a relentlessly stylish place, from the staff dressed in designer T-shirts to the Italian glassware. The walls are covered in copies of Renaissance frescos. Owner Sergio Mitrotti divides his menu into three parts---his grandmother’s cuisine (traditional), his mother’s (modern Italian) and his own (innovative). Among the latter, try such exotic fare as fresh mango fettuccine with shrimp, and asparagus ravioli with a sweet vermouth cream sauce. We eat simply here, often late at night at the bar, ordering things Mitrotti’s grandmother would have made---bruschetta con vongole and linguine alla putanesca, a spicy marvel full of black olives, capers and anchovies. With a glass of Frascati or Valpolicella Amarone, we sit back, watching one of the town’s most interesting crowds.


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