My wife is throwing an 80th birthday for her parents and their friends in a few weeks at Radici and she’s trying to figure the menu, etc. Radici is Tiffany Derry’s latest restaurant. We’ve loved Roots and her parents live in Farmers Branch. Anyway, we went last night to try some stuff out and start picking the menu. One of my wife’s closest family friends joined us so we could try more stuff. We started with the Pepperoni Salad and Fried Squash Blossom and both were excellent. The Squash Blossom was among my favorite bites of the night. For our pasta course, we got the Rigatoni All’Amatriciani and one that was a pasta with shredded pork. The rigatoni was the star. The pork, which I see isn’t on this menu, was good but we would’ve liked another pasta better. For our main, we got the halibut and it was terrific. We ordered both desserts — their spin on tiramisu and olive oil cake. They were both really good but I think we liked the cake better. All in all, it was a terrific meal. It’s not Via Triozzi level but it’s a lot easier to get a reservation. The space is nothing really to write home about — it’s in a new shopping center in the burbs. You don’t go to Roots for the atmosphere either.