Some of best Italian food I've ever had. Some reviews here seem to disparage the place with insinuations about off the shelf ingredients, etc. I don't know and I don't care. The food was top-notch. Three of us each tried different pasta dishes. Ravioli with hot/sweet peppers, the Pork Gravy pasta, and a veal dish. Each was excellent. Larger portions, but not overly so. Also had the calamari with spicy peppers/sauce. Best version of calamari any of us ever had. Excellent wine list for Italian wines.
I rate the food 5 stars, but deduct one star for the "ambience" factor. The restaurant in the Rio doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. Nicely spaced tables with white tablecloths, fresh flowers on each table. Pretty classy, but then you see all these flat screens everywhere you look playing gangster movies (Godfather II was playing while we ate), and Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin blaring in the background. We didn't like that.
Food? Fantastic. The room? Not so much. And the disco balls gotta go.