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| - I went to Vicolo with my colleagues for lunch in January, it was our 'late' Holiday company dinner. We were seated at a table that rocked back and forth. The table legs weren't even and it was pretty bad. Sometimes it's a small rock that can be managed, but this one was not. It's really all in the details, and for a restaurant where people are seated for a while and have to use a table.... well, make it right. We asked to move to a booth. The booth was worse. There is NO SPACE in the booths! I didn't find it comfortable at all.
I don't have too much to say about the service because it was decent on the day we were there. They allowed us to move to the booth without issue and I didn't find we were waiting too long for our food. There were other people there too. The waiter had an interesting character....
Overall the food was good but I was disappointed with the lack of choices. We were able to choose from about 5 main dishes: Chicken, two different kinds of pizza (one seafood [eww, on pizza?] & one vegetarian), beef I think, and what I choose, mini-ravioli. To start we choose from salad or soup. We all choose the soup (it was a cold day!) and it was OK. Nothing groundbreaking... Then we had the meal, which is also OK. I think the portion was good enough. Three of my colleagues ordered the pizza and despite being very thin, it was big and they couldn't finish it all in the one sitting. Since the pizza was veggie, there wasn't much to it. Might have been more substantial if there was meat involved on one of them at least. I was thrown off by the dessert and there was only one choice. It was $3.00 mind you, but it wasn't what I was expecting. The menu said it was "Apple & Cranberry Crumble", which I thought would be baked, together, like Apple Crumble is..... typically. But this one was layered with raw sliced apples & cranberries on top, not baked, and the crumble, which was more like granola, was on the bottom. It wasn't baked or warm at all. A little strange, not how my Momma makes it!
I was considering going back again with my Husband, but I read the other reviews about the Valentine's Day event and Wowzers... It sounds like they were *not* prepared that big evening whatsoever and I am really glad I wasn't there. My Husband would have been livid and he would have made a scene if those reviews are accurate. Hopefully they'll do better next year.....
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