How does this place have 4 stars? How?! We feel Yelp really lead us astray on this one. This meal was absolutely terrible. Garlic bread was cold scraps with hardly any butter, salads were overdressed, and the entrees were gross.
I had the shrimp and salmon over fettucine in tomato cream sauce. The sauce was so watery that it didn't cling to the pasta at all - tasteless. The shrimp still had tails on and tasted dirty. The salmon was okay, but there was hardly any of it. Three small pieces of salmon, three shrimp - for $20. Ridiculous.
BF had the chicken scarpara, which was chicken with mushrooms and peppercino in white wine sauce with penne pasta. You would think the chicken/sauce would be over the penne, but it was actually served on the side with some meh marinara. The sauce itself tasted so strong of peppers and vinegar that it burned. The chicken seemed boiled and was tasteless.
The waitress didn't say anything or ask us what was wrong when we had her take away our barely touched plates - not sure if it was bad service or if she just hears complaints all the time and didn't want to deal with it.
The only good thing about this place was the accordian player's version of Eleanor Rigby. Oh, and the laughs we had imagining what Scott Conant would say about this "authentic" Italian cuisine.