Ca’ Momi is proud to be a part of the Slow Food movement in San Francisco and Napa. Ca’ Momi will be pouring wines at the Golden Glass Event in San Francisco on Saturday, February 4th. Ca’ Momi will also be providing Bigné for over 500 people. Golden Glass is a Slow Food event in San Francisco. Join us to sample and taste the world’s best Bigné, cream puff pastry. Ca’ Momi Napa Valley – Vino, Pizza, e La Dolce Vita.
“Ca’ Momi is a great place to have a casual lunch, dinner or savory snack, to meet friends to linger over pastries or wines, to grab that last minute special dessert to take to a dinner party or to pick-up a party platter for a group.”
“So delicious! Ca’momi is easily the best pizza in Napa and has the friendliest staff around. It sounds clichéd, but you can tell they make their food with love and it makes all the difference.”
“The pastries were amazing and the pizza was the best in Napa!”
“But I have to say, from now on when I visit Oxbow, their cream puffs are a “must have” on my list.”
“Their pizzas and pastries are delicious!”
“So delicious! Ca’momi is easily the best pizza in Napa”
“Try the milk & honey cream puff…tasty!”
A little bit of Italy
Sweet and savory, Ca’Momi offers authentic tastes
After making their wines for several years, they began to feel the need to meet their customers. “We needed an outlet,” said De Conti, “but we didn’t want to be one of 2,000 tasting rooms. And being Italian, we think wine needs food.” “We really wanted to be in front of our customers,” Guolo-Migotto added. The concept of recreating a small patch of Italy began to take shape, with the idea of serving pizza and authentic Italian pastries and desserts to go with Ca’Momi and other Italian wines.
A Heavenly Pairing for Dessert
The latest restaurant to join downtown Napa’s Oxbow Public Market is Ca’ Momi, a triple-threat enoteca, pizzeria and pasticceria. The area is not suffering from a lack of wood-fired pizzas (Azzurro and Oenotri, in particular, stand out), but it’s great to have Ca’ Momi as an option, especially in this bustling public market, where I can meet a friend for lunch and pick up some local groceries for dinner in the same trip.
I was there for lunch recently, sharing some tasty pizza with a friend (the Diavolo with spicy salame really hit the spot). Recovering from a cold, I opted for a bitter Italian soda and not a glass of wine with lunch. But when the topic of dessert came up, I was defenseless. Ca’ Momi’s pastries are heavenly, and a milk and honey custard oozing out of a cream puff pastry ring was suddenly before us with two forks.
Owner Dario De Conti suggested a glass of Ca’ Momi Moscato California 2008 ($5 a glass) with the dessert. (He is also the winemaker for the Ca’ Momi line of wines, which are distributed around the country.) As much as I love Moscato for its aromatics and refreshing carbonation, my previous experience with it as a dessert wine has fallen flat—it can overwhelm (or work jarringly against) a sweet dish. I tend to prefer a glass by itself.
I was right to trust Dario, because the dessert and the wine together could not have been more harmonious. The wine was wonderfully perfumed, with plenty of floral, peach and spice notes. It offered a refreshing foil to the rich dessert. The finish is what really sold me—the lingering creamy texture of the custard and the aromatics filling my mouth showed me that I should be more open-minded about Moscato’s potential. I rated it 87 points, non-blind.
Updated 09.30.11
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