Desert Island Dish with Donna Wilkins

• House-made pasta dishes include a spicy rigatoni alla vodka ($20) and a lamb ragù with pappardelle ($24).

The background: Wilkins moved to Austin more than 30 years ago for a software development job. A little over a decade ago, she and her husband, aerospace engineer Dan Wilkins, decided to get into the restaurant business.

• There is no actual Juliet. It won its name because the previous restaurant at the Barton Springs location was Romeo's.

You're on a desert island. What's the one dish you'd like with you?

"The steak tampiquena at Churchrow Tejas BBQ. We went there on Sunday, and I'm still dreaming of that meal. It's a smoked beef fajita, with enchilada verde, beans and rice and everything balanced out perfectly."

You can take a dessert with you.

"I'd pick the spumoni sundae at Juliet. It's made of gelato — pistachio, cherry and chocolate. So you have some nuts, you've got the cherry pieces — the crunchy pieces — and the creamy gelato and the blend of flavors. And then it's served spumoni-style like we had in Chicago.

• I grew up in the suburbs, and my grandmother used to buy spumoni for us."

What about to drink?

"I'd probably bring a nice bottle of pinot noir. I like a fruity boozy cocktail, too."