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| - Oh yay, another Italian restaurant with innovative menu items like "polenta fries" and pizza with walnuts, speck and pears. (That folks, was sarcasm).
Came here with a few friends for a girls' night catch-up dinner. Thankfully, I had stellar company otherwise I would have been disappointed in the evening.
Cocktails were alright. My friends had a very sweet white wine sangria which was full of sliced fruit, I had a bellini and another friend had a caesar.
We were served complementary fresh, warm bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Yeah, kinda boring but better than the shit-on-stick/screw you you get a Terroni. The bread was good and arrived promptly once we placed our order.
Our server was helpful when we asked about a specific wine. Her personality was friendly and appropriate. However, I was irritated that our empty cocktail glasses sat on our table well into receiving out entrée. Sharing plates were brought during our round of apps and I had to collect them and ask for them to be taken to make room on our table.
Our apps were nothing special: deep fried zucchini and artichoke, polenta fries and a pasta e fagioli soup. Obviously, anything deep fried is delicious but the accompanying sauces were potent with garlic (smell ya later) and the polenta fries were pretty standard with bland sauces. The soup tasted as I expected it to, and it was good.
The entrée portions were decent and we all left a bit on our plates, probably because of the food we started with.
I had one of the fish features: seared ahi tuna with warm sliced grapes, green beans and some kind of eggplant and roasted tomato mush. The fish was OK, but not outstanding. The eggplant and green beans were so salty they were stinging my lips (usually, I'm a salt-lover) and didn't eat much of them. To be honest, I thought the server said grape "tomatoes" not actual grapes. The combination on my plate was a little odd and I wished I had ordered something different.
After dinner, I enjoyed a perfect cappuccino. My friends ordered gelato and some hazelnut chocolate mousse something which was good, very rich and sweet.
All-in-all, Cibo was OK. There was nothing I cared to have again. The service was on-point, from the hostess desk, to our server and her support staff, and to the manager who visited our table for a quality-check. The only minor issue was lazy table maintenance. The space is attractive, as is the clientele. It's too bad about the food.
I probably wouldn't recommend this place to any friends. Maybe it's because my mom is Italian, and a superb cook, that I found the food completely uninspiring. Maybe it's that I'm just bored with Italian restaurants with the same offering of drinks and food (Terroni, Mercato, Ciao, Cibo...).
Their wines don't offer a good value with almost a 400% mark-up on some. That said, the wine was had was good and like I said previously, our server was helpful when we were choosing one.
One final comment. I'm so tired of seeing a Negroni listed. It's becoming the "chicken fingers and fries" of cocktail menus.
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