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| - Restaurant: Ciao Wine Bar
Cuisine: Italian
Location: Yorkville
Address: 133 Yorkville
Price Range: $15~
1: Poor 2: OK 3: Good 4: Very Good 5: Excellent
Food: 2
Service: 3
Ambiance: 4
Overall: 3
Extra information:
* Happy hour
* Takes reservations
* Open for lunch and dinner
Ever heard of girls night out? I am sure you've had one or had girls around you that screams 'girls night out!!' in a high pitched voice and hop around in circle.
Well, that was what I was suppose to have with few of my girlfriends at Ciao Wine Bar. Every thursday, there is a happy hour from 4pm to 7pm and their martinis are around $5 each. Which I must say, is a very good deal cause everyone needs a drink on a Thursday.
Anyways, I've passed by Ciao Wine Bar many times but never realized the restaurant was so big until I walked in.
Honestly, I don't mean it was all spacious and luxurious when I say the restaurant was really big. I found it to be a little cluttered with so many different sections to the restaurant and the tables were placed very much near each other it wasn't very ideal.
We started with some bread which I actually really enjoyed with little bit of salt on top and the black/green olives on the side.
Ordered: Ciao Apple Martini 5/5
* At $4.50, this tasted like green apple martini and it did what it was suppose to for me on a Thursday night
Ordered: Fried Calamari 3/5
* Plate of fried calamari with garlic aioli and tomato sauce for $15.99
* Deep fried anything is always good but I found it to be just ok
* Calamari itself lacked flavor which meant I had to smother it in the sauce
Ordered: Capricciosa Pizza 3/5
* Pizza with italian ham and artichoke for $16
* I found it to be decent also, but nothing amazing
Ordered: Arugula Prosciutto Salad 2/5
* Arugula topped with prosciutto and parmesan for $15
* It's hard to mess up a salad.. it was alright but again, nothing special for what it's worth
* I feel like they were a little too skimpy on the cheese
Ordered: Seafood Linguini 2/5
* Linguini with squid, shrimp, mussels and clams in white wine sauce for $21
* This was probably one of the worst seafood linguinis I've tried in a long time
* For a dish called 'seafood' linguini, it lacked seafood and that is just unacceptable
* And even with the seafood that was there, it was frozen seafood which is just sad
Ordered: Red Sangria Pitcher 3/5
* I found their sangria to be quite expensive for $30 when the pitcher was so tiny
* The pitcher poured out abour 3.5 glasses and that was it
Honestly I am finding restaurants in Yorkville to be over priced and over hyped for what it is. Don't get me wrong, they are all pretty decent to some point but I feel like none of them really lives up to my expectation in terms of food. But then again, I haven't been to all of the restaurants in Yorkville so I am still searching.
Conclusion: Happy hour is great at Ciao Wine Bar on Thursdays but if you are all about the food, I could skip out on Ciao and head somewhere else.
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