Many of you don’t know this, but I consider myself a meatball aficionado. And of the countless meaty spheres I’ve tried and tested (including GOOP‘s turkey and fennel rounds), there is only one that I can hail as total cylindrical perfection and they are Mamma Concetta’s Meatballs at Bistro Don Giovanni restaurant in the heart of Napa Valley – one of wine country’s finest. Owner Giovanni Scala, originally from Naples, Italy, dishes his beloved family recipe with passion (and pasta) on the restaurant’s lunch and dinner menus.

I have been wanting this recipe ever since my first experience, so, needless to say, I was beyond ecstatic to learn from one of the chefs that Giovanni and his wife Donna were preparing them live for ABC’s View from the Bay. You will never, I repeat NEVER, have meatballs as insanely to-die-for as these, and now you can try them for yourself!

Mangia!