Nonna Osteria — Downtown

Inside the Fairmount Hotel, the downtown Nonna Osteria puts Luca Della Casa’s Italian cooking into one of San Antonio’s established hotel dining settings. The restaurant and hotel identify handmade pasta as a central part of the offering. That is a more useful introduction than the broad word “Italian”: the downtown menu lets diners compare filled pasta, long ribbons and potato gnocchi with distinctly different sauces.

Squash ravioli comes with sage butter, toasted hazelnuts and pecorino. Tagliatelle Bolognese follows a meatier direction with beef and pork, while the Cinghiale combines potato gnocchi, braised wild boar and Parmesan béchamel. For someone deciding what to order, the contrast is concrete: the ravioli builds around a sweet vegetable filling and herbs; the gnocchi makes room for a more substantial braised-meat preparation. Carbonara and tomato-based spaghetti add familiar alternatives without requiring everyone at the table to make the same choice.

The menu leaves space for a full dinner beyond pasta. Burrata and vegetables can introduce the meal, and fish or meat can become the main event. That breadth suits a hotel setting where guests may arrive with different appetites, as well as a downtown dinner arranged around one carefully chosen pasta. This profile concerns the Fairmount location. Its character belongs to that dining room and menu; the restaurant’s other San Antonio location has its own address and service details.

Sources: Nonna Osteria: cooking and chef · Nonna Downtown: menu and location · Nonna: hours for each location · Fairmount Hotel: Nonna Osteria · SILO: Nonna identity and logo