Nick Pellegrino has lengthy been a person after my very own coronary heart. Along with the fabulous meals, entertaining ambiance and outrageous enjoyable of a night at his weekend Mangia Nashville Italian feasts at 701 Craighead St. in Melrose, Nick appreciates that some patrons of a sure age (like me and him) additionally wish to be in mattress as quickly as Colbert finishes his monologue.
That doesn’t make us fuddy-duddies. It simply means we want extra magnificence sleep than we did in our youth, again when a disco nap was all that was essential to refuel for an evening out. So I need to thank him for planning a particular version of the Mangia get together for Thursday, June 26, from 6 till 9 p.m., which he’s calling Retro Danceville.
For the uninitiated, a dinner at Mangia is a multicourse affair with a vigorous Italian soundtrack and a steady loop of The Godfather operating on TV screens within the background for ambiance. (Apart: I’ll always remember my Nfocus compatriot Janet Kurtz giving a heartfelt thanks to everybody who attended a non-public Mangia get together for her birthday on the precise second when the Corleone household evens the rating on the large display TV proper behind her. Sorry about that eye, Moe Greene!)
A spotlight of any Mangia occasion is the dancing between programs, typically led by Pellegrino enjoying percussion on pots and pans or kicking of a raucous conga line winding by means of the restaurant tables.
Nick says that he has been requested by Feast aficionados for “extra dancing, and make it early!” He’s obliging with Retro Dance pop-up, the place a reside DJ will likely be spinning the wheels of metal, enjoying the hits of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s to maintain the dance flooring stuffed. This all-ages occasion is all concerning the music, so there will likely be no feast that evening. However the bar will likely be open to these of age who want to partake whereas they boogie down. Nick guarantees some drink specials that night, and if the occasion goes nicely, who is aware of? This will likely change into greater than only a one-time popup.
Seize your tickets upfront for lower than $20 on the occasion web site, put in your boogie footwear and bell bottoms, and prepare to bop the (early a part of the) evening away!
