Hey everybody! This is Randy Santel and
you're watching episode number 23 of
Dinner Is Served, featuring The Hill Italian Restaurant in Springfield, Missouri!!
Alright, I cannot wait to start eating this delicious looking  Italian food feast!!
All of what you see here is inspired by dishes you'd
find in The Hill area of St. Louis,
Missouri!!
Let's explain what we've got now!
[Manager]: Alright, today Randy is starting
out with a 1/2 pound of calamari,
a 1/2 pound of our toasted beef raviolis. We've got just a few breadsticks for him here
today - our seafood bisque. Over here we've got our crispy fried eggplant parmigiana,
our crispy sea bass. We have a whole pound of spaghetti and meatballs, another pound
of lasagna here. We have our famous
homemade butternut squash casserole,
and some shrimp scampi.
For dessert today, we've
got our homemade chocolate cake,
homemade tiramisu. I've got a cannoli, creme brulée cake, and a mixed berry crepe!
Finally, Randy's got a homemade Limoncello to drink!!
[Randy]: Alright, chef Angel Kim, the owner
of ReRico Brazilian Grill, where we
filmed a few episodes ago, he also owns
this restaurant, The Hill.
Him and his team have done so much for the Springfield
community during this time and it is
great to support them again,
so big thanks to them, but let's shut up and eat!!
1,2,3......... BOOM!!
Alright, gonna hopefully take a lot less time than I did for all that Brazilian food,
but I am from the St. Louis area
and I've been to The Hill many times, so we're gonna start off with
some of this toasted ravioli.
St. Louis *famous* toasted ravioli!!
I'm gonna have some of this eggplant
parmigiana while it's still warm.
We'll just use our hands.
Shrimp fettuccine!!
Alright, this is the big part!! The
spaghetti and meatballs!
I'll get these down then it'll be all
downhill from there.
Three minutes in, but I actually have done a giant
like eight pound spaghetti and meatballs challenge
down in The Hill area in St. Louis.
To watch that video, the link is down in the description.
I don't usually eat too much
eggplant, but this is amazing
just like that baba ghanouj was when I did that Lebanese food challenge!!
We're going to have some of this lobster
bisque while I have some of this calamari.
Big spoon time!!
Move some of these plates, have the rest
of this eggplant parmesan,
and then we'll do some of this fried fish, the Rock Bass!!
Anything parmigiana is delicious,
but that was yummy, so time for some fish!!
Now we're gonna do some of this
butternut squash!!
I haven't had butternut squash in a
while, so I'm gonna enjoy this!
That butternut squash was amazing!!
it was flavored with, or it's got on top of it, a 5-cheese blend,
so not only
did I get all the vitamins and minerals
from the butternut squash, but also
calcium from the cheese!!
So speaking of cheese, now we'll move on to some rolled lasagna!!
These breadsticks are awesome too!!
Even better when they're hot!!
Before we do all the dessert, let's have
some of this Limoncello!
Salute!
Ahhh, oh yeah!!
We will start out with this
crepe, which has I think a raspberry sauce on it.
Mixed berry!! Oooooh mixed berry!
Mmmm!
Everything that can be made from
scratch here is made from scratch,
including these cakes and the filling of
this cannoli!!
I'm finally on my big fork.
Arthur told me I must try this, so we've
got to!
That is chocolaty!
Getting my blueberries!
Healthy fruit is part
of this meal too!!
Last but not least: Tiramisu!!
We're gonna 'one bite' this.
Salute again!!
AHHHHH!!
21 minutes and 11 seconds!!
So glad to finally get one done in under
25 minutes unlike I think the last five episodes
took me over 50 minutes, but that food
was so amazing!!
My top three from that meal: I really
enjoyed everything but I especially
enjoyed the lasagna rolls. I loved the sauce on there and I really enjoyed the
5-cheese blend on that butternut squash,
along with how well it was cooked, and
then for number three, I've got to go
with their fried striped bass; they dip
and fry it here - that was awesome!!
So big thanks again, to chef Angel Kim and his
staff here at The Hill All-You-Can-Eat
Italian Restaurant in Springfield, Missouri!!
Typically it's an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Right now, they just bring everything you
want out to you tableside,
but it'll soon be a buffet again, so technically now that I've eaten all that,
I could get more if I wanted to, but I'm on a diet!!
So if you live around the Springfield area,
definitely check out the amazing food and people here at
The Hill Italian Restaurant!!
And if you don't live around the area,
hopefully  this video's made you hungry and inspired you
to the point where you want to go out and support
a similar Italian small business near you!!
Thanks for watching!!
