The Casual Sophisticate: At Posto, the complex pastas trump the simpler pizzas

The Washington Post
By Tom Sietsema
Sunday, February 15, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/restaurants/posto,1154795.html

“Restaurateur Paolo Sacco envisioned Posto as a casual Italian hangout, and he installed a pizza oven to drill the point home. So why is it that this recent addition to Logan Circle frequently brings to mind Sacco’s coolly formal Tosca downtown?

A good wine program prompts the comparison. There are plenty of interesting labels from which to choose, some from lesser-known wine regions such as Campagna and Puglia in Italy and Navarra and Terra Alta in Spain. Sacco tapped Kathy Morgan, his onetime sommelier at Tosca, to compose the list, which includes more than a dozen wines by the four- or six-ounce glass (the larger pours are better values)…”