As H voted to come and try this new restaurant, I was ready to bet we would be severely disappointed. After all Italian food I have really high standards for Italian food and some of the pics I saw of the dishes made me worry this might be the kind of over-sauced Italian I hate. I couldn't be farther from the truth.
I really enjoyed all the food there. I had the small ricotta gnocchi (which was not all that small) and H had the small black fetuccini with seafood. I tried the fetuccini and I liked them, but I think the gnocchi where much better. The mushroom and cheese sauce well complemented the gnocchi without weighting them down too much.
After that we shared the Arctic char. The fish itself was perfect. Skin was crispy and fish was cooked to perfection. The vegetables, were good but a bit oily for my taste. Flavor was there and cooking was pretty much spot on, but I would have drained most of the oil they had been cooked in before plating them.
After the fish I was pretty much full, but BF opted for dessert and chose the berry sorbet. It was OK a bit sweet for my taste and not all that special according to me, but he liked it. For $7 I would have skipped it (It was worth about $3-5 to me).
Service, location and wine were good and well complemented the food. If I have to criticize something I would say the room was a bit dark and pretty cold.
Will enter the rotation of spendy restaurants that deserve my money on special occasions.