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| - What a cute restaurant. We were seated on their patio which was tucked behind the restaurant, which is in the corner of the strip mall. There is an Italian grocer and gelato place next door, kind of like a Little Italy in east Mesa.
Service here was excellent and attentive. Our first waitress introduced herself and told us a bit about the restaurant. It's owned by a husband and wife team and the staff works together like family. We had several servers waiting on our table and it was easy to ask for anything we needed. They started us off with bread an a plate with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. For as much bread as we ate, we all ordered different plates, ranging from lamb, chicken, shrimp, calamari, beef, bruschetta, soup and salad. I ordered the spinach and cheese ravioli in a bechamel sauce and I enjoyed it. It was a good size plate and I was surprised I finished it. I tried a few of the other dishes and liked them, even though I'm not big on Italian food and pasta in particular.
We skipped dessert even though some of the choices sounded great, since the gelato place was in the same complex and we planned to visit there before we headed over here. One of the servers who gave us the dessert menus heard me say gelato and said he wouldn't be offended if we went there because it's amazing, good attitude!
Overall, a really nice dinner here and I can see why they're popular. Far for us, but it was worth it.
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