by Mark Anderson

The are so many dreams going on at brand-new Il Tegamino (250-5790) it feels a little bit like Inception, with owner-operator Giuseppe Panzuto playingLeonardo DiCaprio, jumping from dream to dream, cellar to dining room, kitchen to patio. Only instead of layers of memory and surreality, it's layers of pasta in the handmade lasagna di carnavale, just like Mama Panzuto used to make.

In fact, Rita Panzuto's dreams are part of this. She died three years ago, but always dreamed her sons would once again open a restaurant. Today that restaurant, tucked in the cute and subterranean-seeming spot in the belly of the Court of the Golden Bough in Carmel (off Ocean between Monte Verde and Lincoln), is named after the traditional Italian pan, or tegamino, she used so frequently and lovingly.

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