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| - Overpriced, bland, outdated food with mean portions. Came here with a group of friends on a weekend evening and the atmosphere was cute enough. Our server was very friendly and gregarious, although another server who occasionally cleared our table and kept our drinks stocked was unbelievably rude. Food took over an hour to arrive at the table and was hardly worth the wait.
A communal order of meatballs yielded six meatballs (two pork, rabbit, and lamb - each pair in a different sauce). The meatballs were about the size of large gumballs, so we each got a few crumbs of meat. The sauce in which the meatballs were served, however, was delicious - particularly the lamb.
A charcuterie platter yielded a few slices of meat and cheese and some side dishes, and - like the meatballs - it was way overpriced for what arrived.
A friend's tomato and mozzarella salad was an embarrassment: a whole, small tomato cut into three or four slices, between which were shoved a few paltry morsels of cheese. $10 for that, folks.
The dandelion salad came Yelp recommended so I gave it a shot. A bunch of soggy, hideous leaves appeared in a bowl. I could see how the salad might've been nice but it was drenched in vinaigrette. Every forkful was dripping with it, and it killed the flavour of the dandelion itself, as well as the anchovies and the garlic.
The pizzas were a nice size and attractive, but my mushroom, gorgonzola, and truffle oil pizza tasted like something I'd make in my countertop mini-oven when I was hungover. It was just "something to eat", but it had no particular flavour. A pizza with those toppings should taste light but decadent. This tasted light but stingy and boring.
With the exception of the pizzas, which are quite large, the portion sizes are too small for what is offered and how it's presented. When I get teensy blobs of food, it had better offer complex tastes that demand contemplation rather than gorging. It should also be presented attractively, and call attention to its artfulness rather than just let you know that it's there and that you can eat it. Given the lack of care that went into my food and the food ordered by my friends, Lil' Baci should be serving up mountains of its boring, outdated, ugly food. Giving people a trendy handful of bland, lukewarm stuff isn't going to fool them into thinking that they're eating haute cuisine.
Definitely won't be coming back, although judging how rammed the place was, they won't be hurting from my absence. The high attendance makes me wonder what kind of Italian food all those patrons are used to eating.
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