The cacio e pepe arancini is the kind of dish that signals the kitchen's whole approach: a classic executed with enough technique that it reads as new rather than a rerun. The dining room matches the ambition — glitzy without tipping into gaudy, built for the Rush & Division crowd that wants a real occasion rather than a quick plate of pasta.
OpenTable reviewers back up the reputation hard: 4.8 across more than 3,000 reviews, a genuinely rare combination of volume and consistency. The concept has since proven durable enough to spawn a second location (Adalina Prime), which tends to happen only when the original is doing something people actually want more of, not just a flash-in-the-pan opening buzz.
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