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| - Having recently dined twice at Cafe Boa and several times in the past, I'm thoroughly convinced that an average three star rating is appropriate here. My husband and I stopped in for a late lunch on our way to the airport for an afternoon flight. We were some of the only customers in the place and ordered a glass of wine while we perused the menu. We each decided to start with a Caesar salad and I ordered the Agnolotti Boa (mushroom ravioli in a tomato cream sauce) and my husband ordered the Pappardelle with pesto and heirloom carrots. While I fully support the "Slow Food" movement (organic foods) in which Cafe Boa participates, I think the staff may have been confused and thought that "slow" should apply to the rate of service. We waited over 30 minutes for our food, the whole time puzzled as to how it could possibly take that long to make two Caesar salads in a nearly empty restaurant. Finally, our food was served, but the waitress had made the inaccurate presumption that we wanted some sort of lunch special that was offered so what we were served was a plate with two very meager portions of both the salad and respective pasta dish. Had we not been leaving for the airport and embarking on an international flight in which we knew that it would likely be 12 hours before we would see another bite of actual food other than airline peanuts, I politely pointed out that we had intended to order the portions as described on the menu, not the special. After another delay, full salad portions were brought out, soon followed by our pasta entrees once I pointed out our need to get to the airport in a timely manner. The salads were typical Caesar salads, nothing unusual, and the pasta dishes were both of good quality and flavorful. The agnolotti had a nice blend of flavors with the sauce being the best part. My husband's papperdelle was a nicely sized mound of fresh pasta with a garlicky pesto sauce and the heirloom carrots added a unique flavor and texture to the dish. The entire experience, however, took well over an hour which seems unusual for lunch, particularly given how sparsely the restaurant was populated. Given the long delay, we'd each had two glasses of wine and the total bill came to over $110 which seems significantly overpriced for the overall experience that we had.
We returned approximately a month later for dinner when we were on our way to a concert in the downtown Phoenix area. The food was on par with our first experience yet it was proceeded by a complimentary loaf of some sort of tough, chewy bread that was served without any oil, balsamic vinegar, or any other accompaniments to make it at all palatable. The first piece that I attempted to eat seemed to suck all of the moisture from my mouth, so I would suggest that they use those loaves as kitchen sponges rather than something served to guests. The Shrimp Adriatico that we had as an appetizer turned out to be nothing more than poor quality shrimp floating in a sea of butter and tomato juice with a chunk of some other type of bread that was supposed to absorb at least some of the "sauce". We again suffered the same painfully long wait between courses and ended up being late to our concert as a result. While we were sipping our wine at a leisurely rate, it took so long to get our food that we had actually finished the bottle by the time the entrees arrived and had to order an additional glass to have something to drink during our meal. Overall, the food is reasonably decent, but not worth the wait or the price charged and we will gladly try new establishments before returning to Cafe Boa.
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