rev:text
| - Ambience - really cozy and casual, a great place to have a nice dinner & be able to talk
Service - good!
Food - I'll start with the bad. They serve some pretty terrible bread as the starter. I mean, I get it's free, but you're an Italian restaurant, have some GOOD bread! It was stale, hard, and lacked flavour. Worse than day-old bread from grocery store!
I ordered the BUFALINA salad (roasted cherry tomatoes / balsamic reduction / bufala mozzarella arugola / basil / x-v oil $22) which was PARTLY disappointing. The bufala mozzarella was creamy, rich & delicious, BUT it was served atop way too much arugula, which sat on top of MORE of that stale sliced bread!
The entrees though, were SPECTACULAR. We were a group of 7 that ordered 4 pasta dishes, 2 pizzas, and 1 salmon entree that was on the daily special. We only disliked the one salmon dish which was bland, dry, and overcooked. But really, if you're going to an Italian restaurant, you really should be ordering pizza or pasta! Shame on them lol.
All of the pasta dishes were delightful - perfectly executed and FULL of flavour. We ordered the FUNGOCREMA, COMMENDATORE and PUTTENESCA. All great, but the first 2 were stand out dishes. The 4th pasta dish was a lasagna from the daily special which was top notch too!
Their pizza is also done really well. The crust is airy, but chewy, and perfectly crisp.
All in all, I'd highly recommend Mangia & Bevi and will definitely be returning soon!
|