How to Use osso buco in a Sentence

osso buco

noun
  • Cut the osso buco in cubes and coat it in the breadcrumb mixture.
    — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Adelmo’s osso buco and lasagna, two bestsellers, will remain.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Thursday and Friday tend to be when the kitchen offers osso buco as a special.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Try the homemade ravioli with osso buco and roast gravy, or ask about the daily specials.
    — Simeon Hall Jr., Bon Appétit, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Serve the osso buco in shallow bowls sprinkled with some of the gremolata.
    — Tyler Florence, House Beautiful, 6 Jan. 2011
  • The menu offers a selection of pastas and entrees such as pork parmigiano, eggplant lasagna and osso buco, veal shanks in a sauce over rice.
    — Ava Garcia, azcentral, 23 July 2019
  • Each dinner includes your choice of starter, a traditional turkey plate, six-hour osso buco or pan-roasted black bass.
    — Jenn Harris Senior Food Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • In fact, the tapas are part of the big draw—sample everything from butternut squash ravioli, tiger prawns, beef carpaccio and lamb osso buco.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The longtime Houston spot is offering a to-go eats at its current outpost, including its famed osso buco.
    — Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2020
  • His boyfriend made osso buco and risotto; Gulyás put on a John Coltrane record and poured red wine, then made Negronis.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • From osso buco and pork Milanese to pasta and calzones, Prezio just keeps cooking, presenting her dishes to the world two to three times per week.
    — Peter Burke, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The restaurant was known for Italian American classics like osso buco and cannelloni.
    — Tanay Warerkar, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Dec. 2021
  • For a romantic mood, the upscale Mamma Mia is set within a historic townhouse with popular choices such as osso buco.
    — Michele Herrmann, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The osso buco alla meneghina ($68) with buttery risotto that is scented and colored with saffron is a Milanese classic.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Menu highlights across both offerings include tuscan egg benedict, swordfish carpaccio, osso buco milanese, and italian chocolate bread pudding.
    — Kaila Yu, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Besides dishes such as sole meunière, boeuf bourguignon and veal cordon bleu, there was also beef stroganoff, osso buco and tarama spread, a Greek-style appetizer based on salmon roe.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 30 July 2022
  • Also left out are the Italian chefs whose dishes from the southern end of the peninsula were about to be downgraded in favor of risotto, osso buco and other northern specialties.
    — New York Times, 30 May 2018
  • Specialties like tomahawk steaks are on hand, and special orders for porterhouse, bison tenderloin, long-bone veal for osso buco, and others can be filled in 24 hours or a couple of days at most.
    — Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Its pair of restaurants, run by sommelier Kodi Whitehead and barman Kevin Haas, do plates like elk osso buco; there is also a food truck that serves lunch daily.
    — Darrell Hartman, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Cafe Cortina's menu features an array of Italian classics such as osso buco, spinach lasagna and a selection of pasta dishes, featuring pasta made from scratch daily.
    — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • In Miami, developers are betting that $22 truffle pasta purses and lamb osso buco can give them an edge in a glutted luxury-condo market.
    — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Gates takes cues from the cuisine of West Texas and Europe with her elevated seasonal menu, which includes everything from elk osso buco, to venison meatballs, to cast-iron trout.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Order Nanee’s polenta cakes with a hearty sauce that feels indulgent without being heavy; a seasonal gnocchi, currently with acorn squash and local mushrooms; or osso buco, perfect to share.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Order Nanee’s polenta cakes with a hearty sauce that feels indulgent without being heavy; a seasonal gnocchi, currently with acorn squash and local mushrooms; or osso buco, perfect to share.
    — Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 6 Feb. 2026
  • At Jemma, at Hollywood and Vine, Kalb is serving his take on the cuisine with fresh pasta, osso buco, veal parm, a range of sandwiches and a pizza dough that’s taken the chef five years to perfect.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • For a more formal dining experience, Riviera Restaurant is the hotel’s Mediterranean focused menu with a nice selection of fresh pastas, seafood and classic dishes such as osso buco.
    — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The opening menu will include ricotta cavatelli, with braised osso buco and porcini mushrooms, and Rocchio’s legendary trofie pasta, with a seafood Bolognese that includes rock shrimp, scallops, peas and garbanzo beans.
    — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • This multitasking restaurant also serves weekday lunch specials and boozy Saturday waffle brunches, but come for dinner when the kitchen sends out rustic Italian dishes, like garlicky snails, spaghetti vongole, and osso buco.
    — Ingrid K. Williams, New York Times, 10 May 2018
  • Dishes highlight fresh, high-quality ingredients — many sourced from the restaurant’s own garden — and include signatures like osso buco, handmade pastas (including family‑recipe cavatelli), gnocchi with crab and polenta cakes.
    — Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Bistrò Alpino, La Thuile Chef Alessandro Gioe draws from Valdostan tradition, crafting dishes that feel both rooted and refined, like local carnaroli rice with saffron and osso buco ragu.
    — Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2025

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