Help! Estimate calories at resteraunt

There's really no way to know how many calories would be in any of those. For lower calorie I might choose that salmon pasta and just eat less of the actual noodles. lol. I have done that before. Or I'd get the pepperoni pizza and just eat a reasonable amount of it.

None of those sound low calorie. I'd just get what you wanted and move on.

My guess would be one of the pizzas. In my experience, "fancy" pizzas tend to use high quality cheese, and less of it, although the pesto on one of the pizzas is probably a fair amount of oil. There's no way to tell how much cheese or pesto the restaurant uses unless you've seen the pizza.

There is also the marinated veggie salad, but it's hard to know how much oil those veggies have soaked up. Plus, as a vegetarian, I have had more than my fair share of sad restaurant vegetables.

I'd probably go for the pesto pizza because I think it sounds the best, not because it's necessarily low calorie.

None of the above. Restaurants cheat. What could be a moderate dish, calorie wise is greatly enhanced with an ounce of olive or sesame oil. 250 more calories. Boom! I have seen salad dressing made with 3 oz of oil. 750 calories. Salmon steaks dipped in butter and tossed on the broiler. A half a cup of clarified butter poured on a T Bone. 800 calories of clarified butter. Mop it up with a baguette and you add 1000 calories to the steak. That luxurious taste and mouth feel? They get it by adding butter, oil, mayo, etc. You gotta make it yourself if you want to count the calories.

The polenta sounds delicious. What did you end up choosing?

Don't know which is the best calorie option but I'd go gnocchi and affogatto and not even think twice about it .