Gabriella Cafe chef Adrian Cruz is cooking up gorgeous dishes of sexy, 
seasonal items – they taste as good as they look.
A case in point is this impeccable bowl of tagliatelle, sensuous thick pasta noodles tangled with Monterey Bay calamari, octopus and a dice of kobucha squash. Utterly sinfully perfect.
I never understood why good food needs to be described as “sinful”.
“Sometimes a bowl of noodles is just a plate of noodles” … or was that a cigar?
Speaking of rants about tuna and soap bars … one can only hope that plate of tagliatelle was the appetizer-sized portion, and not the entree.
The bowl was appetizer-sized – as opposed to the amazing, over-the-top huge lunch portion of san xian noodles at O’mei (my new favorite lunch item).
I use “sinful” when I want to emphasize the sense of decadent voluptuousness, the
better-than-sex quality of some particularly soft/firm plate of food, usually pasta. But you may of course choose to ignore the sanctimonious inflection of that word “sinful,” if you like.
Christina