Customize Your Meal & Choose Your Culinary Journey
By selecting one from each of these courses:
Un Antipasto: Your Small Starter Appetizer
Un Primo: Your Small Pasta Course
Un Secondo: Your Main Course
Un Dolce: Your Small Dessert
Antipasti
Choose one of the following starter appetizers
Insalata Mista
Field greens with fresh vegetables, olive oil, red wine vinegar
Fainè alla Sassarese con Cipolla e Salsiccia (Farinata Sarda)
Baked chickpea-olive oil pancake with onions and Sardinian salami
Tonno alla Carlofortina
Seared tuna with garlic, tomato, and vinegar sauce scented with bay leaf ($4 supplemental)
Pancia di Maiale Glassata al Mirto
Slow-roasted pork belly glazed with Sardinian myrtle berries, rosemary and honey
Polpo e Patate alla Sarda
Mediterranean octopus salad with boiled potatoes, parsley and lemon ($4 supplemental)
Primi
Choose one of the following pasta courses
Fregola con Arselle, Porri e Oro di Cabras
Toasted Sardinian couscous with tiny clams, leeks, garlic, parsley, white wine and Sardinian grey mullet roe. Bottarga production in the Mediterranean dates back nearly 3,000 to 4,000 years. It originated from the Phoenicians, who discovered the method of salting and drying fish eggs to preserve them. The pristine brackish waters of the Cabras Lagoon — located on the western coast of Sardinia—are an ideal habitat for grey mullet. Bottarga was used as a royal gift, a luxury item fit for nobility, dignitaries, and royal exchanges
Spaghetti all'Aragosta
Spaghetti pasta with sautéed lobster, garlic, chili, white wine, and tomato ($7 supplemental)
Gnocchi del Contadino alla Baunese (us Ladeddos)
Baunei-style potato-semolina "farmer's gnocchi" with tomato, basil, and pecorino sardo
Culurgiones Ogliastrinus a Sa Spighitta con Crema di Pecorino e Zafferano
Traditional pasta filled with potato, mint and "casu 'e fitta" cheese with pecorino- saffron sauce. "Sa spighitta" means "in the shape of a wheat spikelet." Similar dishes can be found in Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cuisine. Giovanni Boccaccio, the poet and writer from the Renaissance, mentions this pasta in his famous novel, The Decameron
Pappardelle al Sugo d'Anatra (Toscana)
Bartolotta's signature wide-ribbon pasta with red wine-braised duck ragù ($6 supplemental)
Chilled rock lobster salad with heirloom tomatoes, red onions, olive oil, lemon, garlic, mint, and basil. ($12 supplemental) The heavy influence of the Spanish conquistadores can be savored in this traditional dish from the coastal town of Alghero, nicknamed "Barceloneta" or "little Barcelona." Founded in 1100 A.D. by the Dorias, a most powerful Genoese family, the city of Alghero was later ruled by the Spaniards when, in 1353, King Pedro IV of Aragon and Catalonia obtained, from the Pope, the right to annex Sardinia
Pecora a Succhittu
Oristano-style lamb braised in white wine with artichokes, olives, and sun-dried tomatoes
Sa Cassola de Casteddu
Cagliari-style seafood stew of clams, mussels, fish, cuttlefish, onions, tomato and vermentino wine
Filetto di Maiale con Favata alla Sassarese
Seared pork medallions with stewed fava beans and carasau flatbread. 'Favata' is a very ancient dish of poor origins, originally made with trimmings and less valuable parts of the pig. A type of polenta called "puls fabata" was mentioned by Roman author Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
Dolci
Choose one of the following desserts
Pane Carasau con Pecorino Arrosto e Miele di Asfodello di Luigi Manias
Grilled Sardinian pecorino cheese on toasted carasau flatbread and artisanal asphodel honey ($4 supplemental) Carasau is a paper-thin, twice-baked traditional flatbread from Sardinia with roots dating back to the Bronze Age. Luigi Manias is the heir to the oldest family tradition in beekeeping in the world, started by his ancestor Antioco Manias in 1631. His apiaries are in Monte Arci Park, where he specializes in honey harvested from classic Mediterranean plants. The Asphodel is a hardy perennial plant native to Southern Europe and North Africa
Crema di Limone "Costa d'Amalfi"
Chilled lemon custard with toasted meringue
Budino di Caramello
Sea salt-caramel pudding with dark chocolate ganache
Torta di Cioccolato Amaro
Flourless chocolate cake with vanilla bean crème anglaise
Classico Tiramisu' di Ristorante Bartolotta dal 1993
Our signature version of this classic dessert of layered mascarpone mousse, savoiardi cookies, espresso, and cocoa
Nestled in a historic Pabst brewery building in the heart of downtown Wauwatosa, Ristorante Bartolotta is the flagship of The Bartolotta Restaurants. Opened in 1993, Ristorante serves authentic, traditional Italian cuisine in a cozy, intimate setting.
Ristorante Bartolotta, rated four stars by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel upon opening, continues to garner high praise with both critics and customers as Milwaukee’s best Italian restaurant. The traditional menu features handmade pasta and imported Italian ingredients, with the three-course chef’s menu changing seasonally.
Ristorante Bartolotta is led by Chef Juan Urbieta, who joined The Bartolotta Restaurants in 1998 and is known by many as one of the best Italian chefs in the Midwest.