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Two Alfredos get the same name
Fettuccine Alfredo started, in the Roman telling, as fresh fettuccine tossed with butter and Parmigiano until the pasta water and the cheese made a sauce. No cream jug. The Italian-American plate most people meet in the United States adds cream, and often garlic, and it is thicker. Both get called Alfredo. A restaurant menu that says creamy is telling you which one you are getting. A menu that only says butter and cheese is telling you the other.
Neither version is a tomato sauce. If you wanted vodka sauce or marinara, those are different plates. Alfredo is the white one. It is rich. A full bowl is a meal, not a side you forget you ordered.
The dish on our menu
Brooklyn's Finest Pizza lists fettuccine Alfredo at $14.99, described as fettuccine tossed in our creamy homemade Alfredo sauce. The word creamy is on the menu, so this is the cream-style plate, not a butter-only story we failed to mention. We are not publishing the ratio of cream to cheese. The description is the description.
The pasta section says gluten-free pasta is available, and that pasta dishes can be spaghetti, linguine, ziti, penne, or rigatoni. This item is named fettuccine. If you need a different shape, or gluten-free pasta, say so when you order instead of assuming the name changes itself. Call (718) 815-7070 if gluten-free is a medical need. The kitchen is not a sealed room, and a note that gluten-free pasta is available is not a promise about a shared sauté pan.
Other Alfredo items, so the names stay straight
Tortellini Alfredo is $15.99, tortellini with creamy Alfredo sauce. That is stuffed pasta, not fettuccine. Chicken spinach Alfredo is an entrée at $19.99, and the menu does not add a longer description than the name. Chicken spinach Alfredo pizza is a specialty large at $22.99. Three uses of the sauce, three items. Order the fettuccine if you want the noodle. Order the pizza if you want a pie. Do not expect the pie to arrive as a bowl.
Penne vodka, baked ziti, and marinara are the red sauces if the table splits. They can share a ticket. They are not Alfredo with food coloring.
A home bowl is not our sauce
At home, a cream-style Alfredo is butter, a splash of cream, and a heap of grated Parmesan, tossed with fettuccine and a little pasta water so it clings. Garlic is optional and common in American kitchens. Do not boil the cream into a broken oil slick. Grate the cheese yourself if you can. Bottled powder will not melt the same way. That is home advice. It is not our homemade sauce written out, and cooking it will not reproduce the $14.99 plate.
If the point was dinner without a pot, order the plate. Leftover Alfredo thickens in the fridge. Loosen it with a spoon of water or milk in a pan, not a long microwave blast. Again, that is leftover advice, not a catering rule.
Order the noodle you named
Order at Order Online, which is order.brooklynsfinestsi.com, or call (718) 815-7070. On an iPhone or iPad, the app sends the same menu. The shop is at 1250 Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10305. Pasta is on the dining-room menu, for pickup, and for delivery inside 4 miles. Hours end at 10:00 PM, or 10:30 PM on Friday and Saturday.
Fettuccine Alfredo here is fettuccine in a creamy homemade Alfredo sauce, $14.99. Tortellini Alfredo is the other pasta. The pizza is the pie. Say gluten-free if you need it, and ask before you promise a guest the kitchen can do it in a separate pan. The menu is the list. The dinner page is the rest of a sit-down meal if the Alfredo is only one plate at the table.
A bowl this rich is usually one person's dinner, not a side for four. If the table wants a shared pasta, look at a catering tray instead of four entrées that were meant to be plates. Baked ziti and penne vodka are the red options when Alfredo is too much cream. Order those by name. Add a salad if you want something cold on the same ticket. And check $14.99 in the cart the day you pay. A blog can quote the menu. The cart is the bill. Hours still end at 10:00 or 10:30, creamy sauce or not. Fettuccine Alfredo is $14.99. Tortellini Alfredo is $15.99 if you want the stuffed pasta instead. The chicken spinach Alfredo pizza is a pie, not a bowl. Say the full name. If you need gluten-free pasta, say that too, and ask how the kitchen handles it before you treat the note on the pasta section as a guarantee. Cream sauce is a dairy dish. It is a poor choice for someone avoiding milk, and we are not going to invent a dairy-free Alfredo. Marinara and garlic and oil are the simpler plates when cream is the problem. They are on the same menu, under their own names, at their own prices. Read the line before you pay.
Visit the shop
Brooklyn's Finest Pizza is at 1250 Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10305. Call (718) 815-7070.
- Monday – Thursday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Friday – Saturday: 10:00 AM – 10:30 PM
- Sunday: 10:30 AM – 10:00 PM