Food Network Highlights Another Strongsville Restaurant

A week after the Food Network was in town to make over the food from another Strongsville restaurant will be featured on the cable TV network.

A dish at , 12201 Pearl Rd., will be part of the Food Network's The Best Thing I Ever Ate, a series in which chefs share their favorite food from restaurants around the country.

"Michael Symon picked our cavatelli as the best he ever ate," owner Joe Bucci said.

The episode airing at 10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22 features chefs' childhood favorites. The show was actually filmed at the original Bucci's, 1 Berea Commons, in Berea.

Bucci said the Food Network visited the restaurant about four months ago, spending six hours filming the cavatelli being made and Michael Symon munching on it.

It's a huge thrill that Symon, who won the Food Network's Iron Chef title a few years ago, chose Bucci's cavatelli, Bucci said.

"We're very honored, very excited about it," he said.

The Food Network's website describes the show this way: "Michael Symon, Bobby Flay, Gail Simmons and others take a step back in time to recall the dishes they loved as a kid. Handmade pasta, Frito pie, cotton candy and pizza might be their Childhood Favorites, but they're just as good today . . . maybe even better!"

Symon's "comfort food that takes him back to childhood is cavatelli, homemade pasta dumplings, from Bucci's" the site says.

Bucci operates seven area restaurants, including J Bella, which was featured in a Strongsville Patch in January.