Sunday Night at daVinci's

daVinci's in Hailey

We have a bucket list of restaurants that we visit every time we come to this area. At the top of the list is daVinci's in Hailey, a town 10 or so miles south of Ketchum. We have been here less than two weeks, and we have already been to daVinci's twice. Sunday  night we dined with our friends who are neighbors of the owners.

This restaurant caters to locals, serving "New York style Italian". It opened in 1996, and has had the same servers since the 90's! The building is 100 years old, and according to locals "has been everything from a flop house to a free store to a restaurant."  The owners claim that there is not a single right-angle left in the building and it finished settling 50 years ago. Needless to say, the dining room is very cozy.

Most of the dishes they serve are made in their own kitchen; each meal is served with salad and crusty bread. Everything is always wonderful, but the desserts are the best! My favorite is Mountain High Mud Pie, "a mountain of cookies and cream and mocha almond fudge ice cream in a homemade chocolate cookie crumb crust on a bed of hot fudge topped with whipped cream and dusted with cocoa--it's huge!" Dick and I shared one! Yum!