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I have upgraded my rating to 3 stars based on the food alone. I want to highly commend the owner and staff for their willingness to act on my customer feedback. That is a sign of a good business.
Levetto's owner invited me to try the same meals again at their expense as the kitchen had been retrained. We went back to the restaurant on a quiet Sunday evening about a month after our initial visit (unannounced to have an unbiased experience). Both dishes were executed better. The Funghi pizza came with all the components and we could taste the garlic and cheese. It was overall enjoyable. The Cavatelli pea-pesto pasta was properly al dente. We could taste the dish as it was meant to be. Unfortunately, it just too bland for our taste. We also ordered the Trecce, a pasta with sun-dried tomatoes and goat cheese, which was much more flavourful and overall enjoyable. We ended the meal with a very good warm brown butter and coconut cake (would have again) and a not very good (biscuit was too soggy, berries were freezing cold) white chocolate tiramisu.
Levetto's still has some work to do but they are moving in the right direction!
Customer service - 4 stars
Food - 3 stars
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FYI My rating system is as follows:
1 star - couldn't swallow the food
2 stars - terrible food; we managed to swallow
3 stars - food was average
4 stars - good food; would eat here again
5 stars - great food; we're def coming back with friends
My rating is for food only. Decor and service are not part of my rating system. If I do happen to mention either, it's because they were either so outstanding or so horrible, they were worth mentioning.
Now onto Levetto...
We ordered a pasta dish (Cavatelli) with pea pesto and a pizza (Funghi) with 4 kinds of mushrooms.
The pizza did not have any marscapone or roasted garlic crema on it, although that was how the pizza was listed on their menu. The pizza consisted of mushrooms, bread and a light dusting of cheese (by that I mean mini dust particles). The entire thing lacked flavour. It was not worthy of the title "pizza". All this for 15$.
The menu described the pasta dish as pea pesto, baby spinach, roasted red peppers, white truffle oil and a dollop of ricotta. The texture of the pasta was overdone. The flavour of the pasta had no balance. It tasted like mashed up peas and nothing else. The texture of said pesto was chunky and did not pair with the pasta. There were hardly any veggies in the dish (2 skinny pepper strands and 4 leafs of baby spinach). The ricotta added zero to the dish. The white truffle oil was nowhere to be found in terms of flavour. However, there was a huge amount of an unknown oil in the bowl and the pasta was literally floating in it. We ate a few bites and then left the rest. We never throw food away (too many hungry people in the world) but this time we had to. It was that bad. We didn't even want to take it home to try and fix it.
This restaurant's 4.5 star rating was the reason why I chose to visit this place. I should have read the more recent comments more closely before going. Recent reviews say that something has changed. Sadly, I ended up finding out the hard way.
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