Slideshow SLIDESHOW: Bartender's Choice: What to Order at
Trattoria Neapolis in Pasadena, CA  Photographs: Marvin Gapultos
With a Italian gold pin sommelier overseeing the wine list, LA's
Beer Chicks curating the beer selection, and Vincenzo Marianella
(of Copa d'Oro) consulting on the bar program, patrons at
Pasadena's Trattoria Neopolis are not likely to go thirsty.  The
opulent Italian restaurant and bar boasts grand Italian decor
with marble, leather, and dark wood throughout. A wrought iron
balcony oversees the long white marble bar at the middle of the
restaurant, where the open kitchen and wood-burning pizza oven
are also on full display.  This being an Italian eatery, and
Vincenzo Marianella being Italian himself, many of the cocktails
at Trattoria Neapolis feature Italian liqueurs and cordials. The
Italian Necktie, for example, features floral Amaro Meletti
mixed with Templeton rye whiskey, Punt e Mes, and mole bitters.
For a drink called The Surgeon General, Amaro Montenegro and
Amaro Nonino are co