I'm surprised by the amount of high ratings that this restaurant has. And I can agree with the low ratings this place has. This place pretty much BLOWS and represents LV pretentiousness to the max.
My friend and her boyfriend booked reservations for 4 people at 8p on a Saturday night. My friend was told it would be a 20 minute wait and was told that when a table becomes available, the restaurant would call us. Well...there was no call within 20 minutes and by 50 minutes, still no call so I decided to ask about the status of our table. Here's the conversation I had with the hostess.
Me: Hi, could I please get the status of our table? We had a reservation for 8p.
Hostess: Name please?
Me: (tells the name it's under)
Hostess: oh we called for this reservation 10 minutes ago; it was for 2 people right?
Me: No. It's for 4 people and we didn't receive a call. What was the number you called?
Hostess: Uh...(checks call log) we called 10 minutes ago. Well, there's a table right there for four now...
Me: (frustrated and almost furious) Ok, let me get the rest of my party.
So my friend didn't in fact get a call from the restaurant. Bad impression number 1.
Bad impression number 2: We get seated and the menus aren't earth friendly--they're printed on paper and was used as a placemat. The bread was soft, decently flavored and they did offer packaged cracker type bread sticks...Not sure I'm diggin' that because this restaurant was kinda expensive so I don't think it was appropriate to offer packaged items like that....
At this point, I needed to order a half of bottle of wine to myself to somewhat enjoy the dinner. The wine selection was ok; I think it's equivalent to Olive Garden in my opinion.
Items that I had a chance to sample and purchase--(Bad impression 2.75)
1.) clams: it was ok. The red sauce wasn't anything spectacular and the clams they used were meaty and big.
2.) Gnocchi: not good. I didn't even eat half of it. It was puny and reminded me of rice a roni....The sauce was overly meaty and somewhat gross.
3.) Veal: That was actually pretty good. Flavorful and made to the right temperature. Cheers to that DOCG. :P
4.) Margarhita Pizza: Nothing special. Sauce and cheeses kinda tasted like something you would eat out of a lunchables pizza kit. Definitely had SO much better.
The restaurant service's was somewhat uncoordinated, and the food's quality/taste did not match up to it's prices. (lower quality tasting food for high prices...no thank you).