Shared our orders with other people so I got to taste a number of dishes. Caesar salad was your run of the mill Caesar salad. Could not discern any anchovy flavor which is the hallmark of a good Caesar dressing.
Calamari appetizer was nicely fried, not greasy, but not tasty enough. I think it needed to be browned more. The sauce that came with it was tasty. Also had fried zucchini, (again not greasy) but was heavy on the breadcrumbs. That happened because the zucchini was cut the long way instead of in sticks and the heavy breading overwhelmed the thin, flat piece of zucchini. Nothing I would order again.
I tasted my dining companions tilapia. He commented that a little garlic would have enhanced the flavors. But I will say that it was perfectly cooked. Eggplant parmigiana suffered from "rawness" from the taste of the breadcrumbs. You could taste the uncooked breadcrumbs in the middle. I am an eggplant lover and I had no more than a super thin slice of it. The eggplant has to be fried enough to give the breading a cooked flavor. It tasted as if breadcrumbs were just added at the end right out of the container. Spaghetti with sausage was fine, but nothing that I wanted to spend calories on. The baked rigatoni had meatballs in it which were tasty but had the consistency of hockey pucks. Too hard. If you are going to bake meatballs in a dish of pasta, you can't put fully cooked meatballs in the dish. They have to be partially cooked so that the baking finishes them off.
The winners of the evening were the desserts! AMAZING tiramisu! Light and not too sweet. Just perfection. I tasted my dining companion's cheesecake and I couldn't decide which was better the tiramisu or the cheesecake. The cheesecake was light and fluffy as if they used ricotta cheese in it. At the end of the meal I was happy to have experienced such wonderful desserts.
The two stars are for the cheesecake and tiramisu.
I won't mind going back just to eat their desserts. There are better italian restaurants in the valley especially if you want to experience really authentic italian dishes.