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Reservations are limited.\n\nThe menu opens with mushroom caps filled with seasoned beef and roasted red peppers and topped with melted Fontina. Rigatoni follows, with Italian sausage, broccoli rabe and pistachios. The lamb comes with a radicchio salad, and dessert is an individual cheesecake with a Biscoff cookie crust.\n\nThe page does not name the wines or the chef who planned the menu.\n\nLa Casetta opened on Neuse Boulevard in 2015 in a former Pizza Hut building. Its history page says the restaurant finished an expansion of its dining room, with a full-service bar, in December 2023.\n\nThe restaurant has run four-course wine dinners before, and the price has climbed each time. Its event pages list one on April 22, 2025, at $60 per person, one on Jan. 13, 2026, at $65, and one on June 2, 2026, at $70. 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