Tannis O.
Yelp
This is not your traditional Italian Restaurant with either familiar northern or southern Italian dishes. Beautiful physical plant inside and out. Servers were friendly, and manager Alejandro was very kind and welcoming. We started upstairs at 4:00 with Tapas food and bar that the menu lacked imagination, and did not offer any creative standard Italian small plates. Upstairs bar was warm and inviting with fireplace. Menus upstairs and downstairs were impossible to read small fine print. We all had to pull out our IPhones flashlight to read which affected our experience. Cocktails lacked imagination....cool bar upstairs and downstairs but no Espresso Martinis, Old Fashioned, or Manhattans.....our Entrees were under whelming and were small portions. An example, Branzini was presented on a plate by itself. Just a breaded fish on a plate...no sauce no small green. Very sad presentations. We kept waiting for a small side dish to complement the lonely fish on the plate. We did find some mussels that were completely hidden under the fish. My wife had the Gnudi pasta and albeit small portion, she said it was delicious in flavor. I had the Mushroom pasta that was a small portion, perfect Al dente but extremely bland and flat in flavor. Maui was last entree at table and my friend also said it was bland and lacked depth. 3 out of 4 entrees were unremarkable and disappointing meals. With entrees, salads, cocktails, desert and coffee our bill was over $300. Also our server never offered our table fresh parm or fresh grounded pepper for our dishes. Maybe this is not an offering at this Italian restaurant. Unfortunately, our table gave the total bar, table, server, and food experience a 3 out of 10... for lacking quality, and creativity. Scored it a 3 out of 10 on value for what you received. Scored it a 8 out of 10 on cool warm vibes. The manager did comp our deserts and coffee around $30 plus which was kind but unfortunately the overall experience did not deliver on value or quality. Maybe this beautiful new restaurant just needs a few more months to flush out a better menu- and improve the quality of the food and guest experience. Note that downstairs by 7:00 the acoustics were deafening and we had a very difficult time hearing one another.