I really wanted to like this restaurant. Reviews were good. Ordered lasagna, baked ziti, garlic bread, chocolate cake.
Upsides: Egyptian bartender is great, friendly, a looker. Inside is nice. Chocolate cake was good.
Downsides: If you're serving small portions (for an Italian restaurant), the food better be memorable. It's not. At $13-15 per dish, it's small and doesn't seem homemade. The garlic bread at $4 is offensively small. A ripoff. Management better rethink whether a $.25 piece of bread is worth a reputation.
Overall, the food is about 25% overpriced for quality and quantity. It's good, not great and benefits only from a lack of good Italian competition in the immediate vicinity.
For the money, there are definitely other options. Go to Spinatos.