Dan W.
Yelp
Small town interpretation of Italian food, yet nothing Italian about it. I've had some friends tell me this is great or even acceptable. But off first impressions it's a never again as well as WTF were my friends thinking.
Look at your food, taste your food, have the cooks prepare for you weekly at a minimum. Taste what you are presenting now, and try and tell me im wrong. I don't know what it is about this place, is it the drugs, is it the people? It seems sometimes that this could be the epicenter of Zero Star Cuisine.
The good:
everything I ordered came out. The iced tea was good.
The Bad:
My order came out backwards, crab cake app and my steak came first. Crab cakes were frozen, and just tossed in the deep fryer. Soaked on oil, yet hot, in a bed of limp spinach. Un appetizing at its very best.
Steak was seasoned and cooked well but it was served with no knife. I ate over half of it with a butter knife before I could get a steak knife. Was a complete bummer.
The caprese salad I ordered came out 10 min after my entre. None of the greens were fresh, most wilted. The mozzarella was split by tomato but it was completely dry no olive oil, no vinaigrette. Just old wilted basil on the top. I had thought "well you can't mess up a caprese" I could not even eat it. $74.00 later and I had wasted both time and money to give this a try.
One star because the food came out. One star because the staff were polite. Overall, epic fail. Sorry guys but that's just not good enough. That's not Italian. It's just Dennys with spaghetti. And frankly Dennys is way better. They even charged me $.50 for the vinegrette... which did not exist.
Oh and my gf's meatball sandwich to go? Nope. Oil soaked fries limp with saturation, small Costco style meatballs with sauce that had flavor, but no presentation and all so soggy it looked like yesterday's leftovers.
Let's be honest it can be really difficult to find decent food in this corner of humboldt. And I don't know what got the 5 star reviews because I'd be hard pressed to rate any restaurant in humboldt a 5 star. I'm being real generous here at a 1.
Absolutely everything was ugly, poorly plated, without any concern for the customer or the restaurants longevity.
Fool me once.. never again. I'd rather not eat...