Ribbons of hand-rolled pasta nestled in a luxurious sauce of good cheese, cream and coddled egg, spiked with salty nuggets of pancetta then tossed with fried potato matchsticks for a charming unexpected crunch and slices of cured egg yolk for even more umami richness. Those with a Proustian food memory or preternatural love for the extra-opulent will remember Nora's Fettucine Carbonara as No. 25 in 50 Great Things to Eat and Drink in Greater Cleveland 2016.

If you've somehow forgotten, or missed it altogether, the entire series of many-splendored things is easily summoned up and well worth a read, but for now we're forging ahead to explore the rest of Nora's equally compelling menu. First a little background: The restaurant is brought to you by Chardon native and Culinary Institute of America graduate, Eddie Zalar, who traveled the country as a hired hand after school and has returned home to show the locals what he's learned.

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