Canneloni, made with spinach pasta, was billed with a stuffing of chicken and spinach.

Specialties include an Asian beef bowl prepared with tamari sesame dressing, a melted-Brie sandwich, Southwest green-chili burger and spinach pasta.

The exceptional pasta dishes include stracci, broad bands of spinach pasta tossed with braised rabbit Bolognese in a Parmesan cream sauce.

This is followed by a soup, perhaps chicken consomme with spinach pasta.

Home-made cannelloni, spinach pasta filled with meat, made a delicious, hefty opener.

One of the more unusual dishes was lasagna made with curried sheets of spinach pasta.

Called foglie d'oliva, the spinach pasta is in the shape of olive leaves.

Lasagna here was delicate, remarkably light in its layering of ultra-thin strips of spinach pasta, Parmesan and cream sauce pinked by tomato.

A light lunch of something like spinach pasta with chopped asparagus follows.

Vegetable lasagna with spinach pasta, assorted vegetables, melted cheese and a chunky tomato sauce also brought smiles.