I went to Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson’s favorite Italian date-night spot and was blown away by the pizza

I recently went to Jon & Vinny’s, Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson’s favorite Italian date-night spot. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have enjoyed a few date nights at Jon & Vinny’s in LA.   They ordered a pizza named after Kanye West, which I recently tried alongside various other dishes.

I also had one of the best salads and Margherita pizzas that I’ve ever tasted at the restaurant.   Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson love a good date night, especially when it’s at an Italian restaurant. Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian love going out to eat at Italian restaurants.

Jamie McCarthy / Staff / Getty ImagesWhether they’re dining in New York, London, or Los Angeles, Kardashian and Davidson are always turning heads — and grabbing headlines.  And the couple, who’ve been going strong for nine months, seems to have a soft spot for pasta and pizza.  Kardashian and Davidson have been spotted at Italian restaurants like Campania in Staten Island and Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica (also a Rihanna favorite).

 But it seems their new go-to is Jon & Vinny’s, located in Kardashian’s native Los Angeles.  Kardashian and Davidson have been spotted at Jon & Vinny’s multiple times, even sharing Instagram photos from the beloved Italian restaurant. Kardashian and Davidson at Jon & Vinny’s in April.

Kim Kardashian/InstagramThe couple was first seen at Jon & Vinny’s Fairfax location in January. According to TMZ, they grabbed a discreet table at the back of the restaurant and ended the date with some ice cream from a nearby Rite Aid.  Kardashian and Davidson were far more public during an April outing at the restaurant.

The couple swung by Jon & Vinny’s again after the Hulu premiere party for “The Kardashians. ” Joined by friends, along with Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian, the couple ordered a feast of salad, pastas, meatballs, and a pizza named after Kim Kardashian’s very famous ex.  Ham & Yeezy may have been on the dinner table, but Kardashian made it clear she only had Davidson on the brain as she posted Instagram pictures of the couple snuggling at their table.

  A post shared by Kim Kardashian (@kimkardashian) It was only the second time she had shared photos of her and Davidson together on her page. I love checking out celebrity hotspots in LA, so I knew Jon & Vinny’s had to be next on my list. Me at Giorgio Baldi, Kardashian’s favorite Italian restaurant.

Anneta Konstantinides/InsiderI’ve already dined at Giorgio Baldi, Kardashian’s favorite Italian restaurant, so I was intrigued to see how Jon & Vinny’s — which is far more casual and affordable — would compare. Plus, I obviously had to see what this pizza named after Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, was all about.  Here’s how it all went down.

 Before my night out at Jon & Vinny’s, I wanted to learn a bit more about the popular Italian restaurant. Jon & Vinny’s Brentwood location. Anneta Konstantinides/InsiderJon & Vinny’s was born from the friendship of Jon Shook and Vinny Dotol.

The Florida natives met on their first day of culinary school, eventually relocating to LA in 2002 with $500 between the two of them, according to Los Angeles Magazine.  After winning over the stomachs of Hollywood’s elite with their catering gigs — plus a brief Food Network foray that solidified their disinterest in TV chefdom — the best friends opened Animal, their first restaurant, in 2008. Seven years later, Jon & Vinny’s made its debut on the LA culinary scene.

 Shook and Dotol quickly caught people’s attention with a menu they dubbed “California Italian. ” Their dishes are inspired by the Italian classics that their grandmothers used to make, but with an emphasis on fresh ingredients from local farmers markets.  “We didn’t want there to be pressure to make the food an intellectual thing,” Shook told Bon Appétit in 2015.

“We want the food to be a hug rather than a challenge. ” Their comforting dishes won over the locals, along with plenty of famous couples. Beyoncé and Jay-Z have been spotted at Jon & Vinny’s, as have John Legend and Chrissy Teigen.

The latter is such a big fan that she even put it on a list of her favorite restaurants in Los Angeles.  Now, Jon & Vinny’s is in the midst of becoming a successful chain — it’s since opened two more locations in LA, with another slated soon for Beverly Hills.  I went to Jon & Vinny’s for dinner on a recent Friday night.

Inside Jon & Vinny’s Brentwood location. Anneta Konstantinides/InsiderI visited Jon & Vinny’s Brentwood location to re-create Kardashian and Davidson’s date night, taking along my boyfriend who also happens to be a very tall and funny East Coast native named Peter — perfect for this assignment! As we walked into the restaurant, Jon & Vinny’s laid-back California influence was immediately apparent. The walls, tables, and chairs are all done in light-blonde wood, while green-and-white pizza boxes provided the main decoration.

It was already a very different vibe from the white tablecloths and candlelight we had seen at Giorgio Baldi.  Before diving into the pizza and pasta, we wanted some salad. The $18.

25 chopped antipasto salad. Anneta Konstantinides/InsiderI used my extremely sharp investigative journalism skills to determine which salad Kardashian and Davidson had ordered at Jon & Vinny’s (meaning I compared the salad in their photos to every salad I could find on the restaurant’s Instagram page).  So we ordered the $18.

25 chopped antipasto salad, which features soppressata salami and caciocavallo cheese alongside the usual greens and veggies. It’s all topped with a shower of mozzarella cheese and some zesty Italian dressing.  You’d think this would’ve been the least memorable dish of the night, but we were actually obsessed with the chopped antipasto salad.

The lettuce, tomatoes, and garbanzo beans all tasted extremely fresh and crisp, while the delicious salami and cheese provided a healthy dose of salt and heat. I’ve had many incredible salads in LA — none of them even come close to this.  “This is one of the best salads I’ve ever had,” Peter agreed.

 We loved the salad so much that we had to get it boxed up almost straight away so we didn’t fill up before the rest of our dishes.  It was time for pizza, and first up was the Margherita. Jon & Vinny’s Margherita pizza is stunning.

Anneta Konstantinides/InsiderThis Margherita pizza is definitely a stunning pie. Just look at that deep-scarlet tomato sauce and those glistening globs of mozzarella cheese.  And Jon and Vinny’s $17.

75 version is easily one of the best Margherita pizzas I’ve ever tasted. It had the thin and crispy crust of a great Neapolitan pie, and the bottom was perfectly flaky and charred.  But the real star was definitely the tomato sauce.

While I’ve found so many Margherita pizzas to be underwhelming and forgettable, Jon & Vinny’s tomato sauce is deliciously rich and extremely flavorful.  Next up was the Ham & Yeezy pizza. The Ham & Yeezy pizza is named after Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.

Anneta Konstantinides/InsiderKardashian and Davidson made headlines when they ordered Jon & Vinny’s $23. 75 Ham & Yeezy pizza, which some interpreted as a dig at the rapper amid his ongoing public feud with the couple.  The pricier pie features smoked ham and smoked mozzarella, along with caciocavallo cheese, pickled Fresno chilies, and vodka sauce.

 The Ham & Yeezy is loaded with delicious ingredients, and I especially loved the taste of the ham. But, overall, we thought the pie was just a tad too dense and heavy. It’s a solid choice, but I definitely wouldn’t order it over the Margherita — sorry Ye.

 Then we dug into the pasta, starting with Jon & Vinny’s corn agnolotti. Jon & Vinny’s corn agnolotti was deliciously creamy. Anneta Konstantinides/InsiderKardashian is such a big fan of Giorgio Baldi’s $30 agnolotti — stuffed with sweet white corn and drizzled with white truffle sauce — that she’s even tweeted about it, so I wanted to see how Jon & Vinny’s version would compare.

 Their $19. 75 agnolotti is significantly cheaper and features brown butter, sage, and Parmigiano cheese.  The agnolotti was actually my least favorite of the four pastas I tried at Giorgio Baldi, so I didn’t have high expectations.

But everything changed when I bit into these little pillows of goodness.  The agnolotti was so creamy, bursting with a rich decadent filling that made each one almost feel like a pastry. The brown butter added just enough sweetness to make the dish unique and distinct, while the earthy sage helped balance the flavor.

 The six-hour bolognese pasta was up next. The six-hour bolognese was a disappointment. Anneta Konstantinides/InsiderJon & Vinny’s spaghetti with six-hour bolognese is a Chrissy Teigen favorite, with the model once sharing a video of herself enjoying the dish on Twitter.

At $23. 75, the six-hour bolognese is one of Jon & Vinny’s most expensive pastas. It was also our least favorite of the night.

 The dish comes loaded with bolognese sauce and Parmigiano cheese, almost burying the thin spaghetti noodle strands underneath. I’d love to try this dish with mafaldine pasta, like Teigen had in her video, as it would’ve been a much stronger vehicle for so much sauce. But even the bolognese wasn’t very memorable or impressive.

Nothing about the sauce’s flavor stood out to us. “Six-hour bolognese? More like 30-minute bolognese,” Peter quipped.  Last but not least was Jon & Vinny’s spicy fusilli.

Jon & Vinny’s spicy fusilli is one of their most famous dishes. Anneta Konstantinides/InsiderTalk to any LA resident, and they’ve at least heard of Jon & Vinny’s spicy fusilli. I knew about the dish before I knew about Jon & Vinny’s, and it still frequently makes appearances on my friends’ Instagram stories.

The $19. 75 dish features a spicy vodka sauce, along with Parmigiano cheese and basil.  Of all the pastas we tried, this was the one that really embodied Jon & Vinny’s ethos of “the way nonna made it.

” The sauce tasted comforting in that traditional homemade way, so I wasn’t surprised when I later learned that Shook and Dotolo have been using the same red-sauce recipes for decades.  While I thought the dish could’ve been a touch spicier to live up to the name, there was a lovely sweetness that came through subtly. The whole dish was both light and rich, a perfect companion for a carb-loaded dinner.

 But the meal isn’t truly over until you’ve had some dessert. The $12 New York cheesecake at Jon & Vinny’s. Anneta Konstantinides/InsiderWe also ordered Jon & Vinny’s $12 New York cheesecake, which features a berry compote and soft whip.

 It’s a testament to how good this cheesecake was that we nearly finished it despite already sampling two different pizzas, three different pastas, and that amazing salad.  While many restaurants’ cheesecakes are way too dense, Jon & Vinny’s has a deliciously light filling that we easily tore through. Our waiter also surprised us with two complimentary cookies — Funfetti and snickerdoodle — at the end of our meal.

It was such a fun and sweet way to end our fantastic Italian dinner.  Jon & Vinny’s is proof that Kardashian and Davidson have great taste when it comes to Italian comfort food. I would definitely go back to Jon & Vinny’s.

Anneta Konstantinides/InsiderThere were so many dishes at Jon & Vinny’s that really wowed us. Peter and I were talking about that chopped antipasto salad for days, and I can’t wait to order the Margherita pizza again. Our date night at Jon & Vinny’s was also far more affordable than our feast at Giorgio Baldi, and the portions were nearly double the size.

 Jon & Vinny’s may look casual, but it can easily compete with any fancy Italian restaurant. Looks like even a billionaire — and her comedian boyfriend — can appreciate date night at a great price.  Read the original article on Insider.