10/24/09

lame food

by Good Eats King

we went there on a sunday afternoon. it was slow. so was our service. the food came out cold and tasted lousy. definately NOT ITALIAN. even the chef is not italian, how interesting? prices were high food quality was low. dont waste your time. seriously.

• Pros: nice atmosphere
• Cons: food sucked

05/13/09

PRICEY, but good food & really nice atmosphere

by bc3

We went on Mother's Day & service was awful. We were seated upstairs & our poor server was friendly, but he must have had too many tables assigned to him.

Did like the fact that the upstairs was much quieter than the main restaurant.

My husband likes to come at lunch, the lunch prices are much more reasonable.

Best rolls in town. Mother & I ate 2, lost count on my husband!

Food was quite tasty. Mother had the Mele e Speck salad with apples, Gorgonzola, Walnuts and bacon in , apple cider vinaigrette.

I had the fixed price menu with ravioli stuffed with braised veal, ricotta and spinach in fresh sage butter

with lemon and pine nuts (outstanding), $11

Chicken breast stuffed with sun dried tomato pesto (almost undetectable, over grilled asparagus (one spear), goat cheese and roasted potato torta with black truffle cream - DELISH! $26.

Husband had Cacciucco - a stew of shrimp, scallops, fresh fish, calamari and mussels sautéed with red chili, spring onions and roasted tomato sauce with (not over as the menu says) grilled bruschetta $28. His stew was large & outstanding, but the bread was burned.

Dessert of Semi-frozen "Dreamsicle" mousse with honey, orange compote and shortbread was just OK - very mild. $6.

White chocolate mascarpone tart with strawberry coulis was good, but not outstanding. Crust tasted like maybe it had been frozen $7.

• Pros: beautiful architecture, good food
• Cons: EXPENSIVE, bad service

04/03/09

Disappointed by bad service

by BeeA

My husband took me to this restaurant for lunch on my birthday. The decor is good and the food is quite tasty, even though the portion sizes of the food are on the small side considering the big price tag. While polite, the waiter did not seem to be very interested in serving us. We only saw him when it was time to order our drink, food and dessert and when it was time to bring the bill. Our water glasses were not refilled even once, we were not offered more than one small piece of bread roll each with our soup and when I gave the waiter my camera to take our photograph, he did not check to see if our eyes were closed or not! As it was lunch time on a week day, the restaurant was pretty empty except for a handful of us. I cannot understand why the service was that bad. We will definitely not go again and we do not recommend this place. The food is good but for the small portion size, big price and bad service, it is not worth the money, time and trip.

• Pros: Tasty food, good atmosphere
• Cons: Small sized food portions, big prices and bad service