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I’ve been staying in Seven Hills a few nights this week. I’m house-sitting for my parents, and they have an extensive garden in their backyard that requires an absurd amount of watering. It’s both flowers and vegetables (the vegetables are a new project they took on this year).

For those of you who don’t know, Seven Hills is next to Parma, and is quite small. It doesn’t even have it’s own post office – it shares one with Independence. I grew up sort of resenting the whole place because it’s lack of anything awesome. However in my later years I can appreciate some of the nicer things.

One place that needs mentioning is Corleone’s Restaurant. It’s just north of Broadview and Snow, in the shopping plaza that has a Pat Catan’s (which used to be a Giant Eagle, where I had my first job). My family and I have been going to this place for years and I have to say it has one of the best dishes I’ve ever had, the Gnocchi Capone.

Gnocchi is my favorite pasta, but if done wrong it’s awful. I had some store bought stuff once that almost turned me off of it for life. But at Corleone’s, they nail it. It’s in a spicy marinara cream sauce, with onions and bacon. It comes with mushrooms but I don’t eat those generally so I ask for no shrooms. I had it for dinner on Tuesday, and lunch on Wednesday. It’s just amazing, every time.

I would highly recommend checking them out. It’s worth the trip to Parma.