Every Sunday night since the new season of The Sopranos started, I’ve enjoyed a different home-cooked Italian meal. (Well, except for that one lazy Sunday when we just ordered pizza.) This week it was linguine with pesto, which I made after noticing the inordinate amount of basil in the fridge that would inevitably go bad if something wasn’t done with it soon.

On this week’s episode, Artie Bucco’s restaurant, Vesuvio, was hitting hard times due to new competition and some in-house credit card scamming. Artie scoffed at the suggestion from Tony that he start offering 2-for-1 dinners, but ended up having to do it in the end.

Let’s hope there’s no credit card fraud going on at Gratzi (and that nobody’s giving the chef third degree burns by plunging his hand into the marinara). They’ve now started offering an Early Fare Menu from 4-6 p.m., if you feel like dining that early. I’ve personally only been there once, back when they first opened, but our very own Doug Imbrogno, whose Italian father stewed his sauce for three days, praises their chunky tomato sauce and calls Gratzi his “favorite Charleston restaurant of the moment.”

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