Sweet Italian, Sweet Tunes

Padrino
111 Main Street Milford, Ohio
513-965-0100

By now most of you foodies know about Padrino. The light & airy pizzas, the luscious lasagne, marvelous manicotti, herb infused meatballs, the scratch made sauce and savory Italian sausage. Not to mention the belly bustin’ “Spaghetti Challenge”. The menu is chock full of soul satisfying Italian. It’s all chef made goodness, quality runs rampant here. After all, Padrino is the sister ship to the fabulous fine dining destination, 20 Brix. But, fine food is not the focus of this article. As much as I’d love to entertain you by digging up words to capture the fine flavors in Padrino’s dishes, for this print I’m thinking of words such as rockin’ & groovin’, movin’ & shakin’, drinkin’ & dancin’ and The Dead.
You’ll usually hear the Grateful Dead coming on quietly out of the 20 Brix speakers. But did you realize you hear the same groove coming on loud & proud out of Jerry’s Little Band’s speakers a couple doors down at Padrino? That’s the truth.
Padrino hosts many fine musicians for the Saturday midnight hour. I strolled in on a Saturday and was pleased to find Sonny Moorman sitting with his six string wooing the crowd with his power blues prowess (He’s second to none by the way). The band list is not nearly as massive as the insane Spaghetti Challenge but just like the food, quality is what it’s all about. Padrino doesn’t need to stock their Saturday schedule with great music, they just choose to, and they only feature the area’s best in show. In October they featured; The Rubber Knife Gang (Bluegrass), Hoopleheads (Guitar & Vocal Duo), Sonny Moorman (Blues), Spare Change (Rock Duo) and Harvest (Jam Band). The jam band/bluegrass/slam grass thing is often the main vein (and that’s just fine by me). November’s schedule already features; the Kevin Fox Duo (Rock Duo) on the 6th and Fairbanks 142 (Jam/Rock) on the 13th, more are coming as well.
If your looking for something fun but just to too damn old for the Saturday night rock scene stop by on the last Tuesday of every month and dine in style with “Cincinnati’s Sinatra”-Matt Snow. You can catch either the 5:30 or 7:30 dinner show. Reservations are not required (but highly suggested). It’s a dinner show Sopranos style. Entertaining for all ages.
Remember, 6 days a week Padrino is purely a romantic Italiano risorante. On Saturday nights Padrino is a rockin’ pub. Granted, a damn nice pub but the term still applies. Check out all the Padrino info on our site or theirs at padrinoitalian.com it features the food, the fun, the story and the weekly comfort food specials. Plus, the details on that insane “Spaghetti Challenge” If you eat it all it’s free, if you don’t your shamed. Famed or shamed, it’s still insane. Adam Richman needs to check this out. Preferably on a Saturday night too.