my sister's godmother gave my parents a $25 bertucci's gift card a while back. they've been meaning to use it, but could never find a good time. ordering from bertucci's on a weekday evening was out of the question as the closest restaurant near us was at alewife and the rush hour traffic congestion heading out to route 2 onramp means that's a serious place to avoid. so the only time would be a weekend evening, and that evening was tonight.

online ordering made it so much easier, although i got a feeling their online menu isn't as complete as their physical restaurant menu (or maybe they changed a few things since my last bertucci's visit, like no tuscan wings or clam linguine). we got a large nolio pizza ($19.99) and plate of antipasto ($11.99) for appetizer. i was ready to put in the order but then discovered a $10 off $30+ order coupon online, so we added a small caesar salad ($2.99) to put us over the $25 mark. with taxes minus the $10 off coupon the total came out to just $26.72. using the gift card, we only needed to pay $1.72 for the entire dinner. i also added 6 dinner rolls, which were free.