Restaurant Review: Vocelli's Delivers to Vmeals

I'm pushing aside my planned post for the day to bring you a real live restaurant review. We had a meeting scheduled with some business associates today, and they treated us to lunch, ordering through Vmeals, of course!

The food came from a restaurant partner that I have never tried before: Vocelli's Pizza. I like pizza, but I don't get too worked up about it because a pizza's a pizza right? (OK, I know that's not true - you pizza afficianados just settle down out there.) So I usually stick to the same old same old.

The meeting organizer chose Vocelli's and used email-a-menu. He modified the menu so that we had only individual boxed lunches from which to choose. There were panini, stromboli, or salad options. Narrowing the menu made it easy for guests to make a choice and RSVP in a timely fashion.

I am happy to say that our delivery arrived right on time. About half of us ordered paninis and the other half ordered strombolis. I had the club panini. It had the usual line up of turkey, ham, bacon, lettuce tomato, and onions - like any good Italian offering, included creamy mozzarella cheese. It was all piled on a sub roll and presumably pressed on a hot panini press. My sandwich was still warm when it got to me, and it was delicious!

The talk of the room, however, was the stromboli. They were huge! Stuffed with various meats and more of that creamy mozzarella and pizza toppings, they were large enough to feed the family for dinner. The men at the table did an admirable job of consuming them. I didn't taste any, but they met with hearty approval all around.

Dramatic recreation of today's stromboli.

All the lunches included drinks, but the paninis came with a cannoli. No matter how full I am (and trust me, I was full) there's always a little dessert space. I don' think I've ever had a cannoli before, but I think I made a spectacle of myself as I mooned and fawned over mine. Everyone else at the table quietly slid their's in my direction. The flaky pastry, the delicious filling with chocolate chips, and the gentle infusion of cinnamon was perfection - and I am still a little overcome with my over-indulgence.

Suffice it to say, I would strongly recommend Vocelli's and I'm pretty sure the outcome of our meeting was dramatically improved by the accompaniment of good food.

Vocelli's has locations in Vmeals' Charlottesville and Northern Virginia markets. Try them for your next lunch meeting.