After 21 years, Jim Becker and Patricia Cambianica, husband and wife owners of La Trattoria in Sunny Brae, are bidding farewell, shuttering the little restaurant.
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On Thursday afternoon, after a morning spent prepping and cooking, Patricia Cambianica is writing the week s menu out on the chalkboard. In the past, diners at Arcata s La Trattoria would crane their necks from their tables to choose but these days a snapshot of the offerings shitake risotto, chicken and polenta, chocolate cake with pumpkin cream cheese filling will go up on Instagram and Facebook. Her husband, Jim Becker, who normally assists with prep, works the books and front of house, takes the orders and, with the help of their sole employee Beverly Matthews, will stage the dinners and move them out the door to customers picking up curbside between 5 and 7:30 p.m. Then they ll shut the doors, make dinner for themselves, clean up and go home.