Meh. Probably deserves 2.5 stars. Came as a party of 4 for happy hour to take this new-to-this-location place for a test drive... Ordinary food (at best), though we ordered only to small plates. Dazed and confused service. First thing I noted was their $8/glass chardonnay ($5 HH price) was NOT 'The Arsonist' as listed on their website. Second item noted upon seating was there was NO menu or written description of HH - we had to ask what was HH (basically $3 off glasses of wine and small plates).
We ordered a $14 ($11 at HH) cheese plate (came with some old, close to toss-out stage grapes - apparently it was too much trouble for the kitchen to run 50 yards across the lot to Sprouts for some fresh ones?), mussels (ungenerous portion overcooked with many broken shells - worst item we ordered), fried calamari (ok), smoked salmon (served on a cooked ahead of time potato pancake - a hot and fresh latke would have significantly improved this dish), and meatballs (5 small, very bread-crumby balls - meh).
Server was nice but basically clueless. Place staffed mostly by kids. Overall a disappointing first visit. We won't be back anytime soon...
This seems like the perfect spot for your basic, local closet-alcoholic housewife to yell to the hubby as she heads out the door that she is headed to Sprouts (which is in same parking lot) for some lettuce and then instead quickly detour into this place late in the afternoon for a few belts of cheap $5/glass chardonnay before arriving loaded (literally and figuratively) back home with the groceries....