Were we at the wrong restaurant? What a disappointment! I had heard and read some pretty good things about IL Bacio so we gave it a try last night. Won't be going back any time soon. There were 4 of us and the best that anyone had was mediocre. I should have been suspicious when at 8 o'clock on Saturday night the place was 75% empty and it just thinned out further from there. We all ordered drinks (the most complicated of which was Grey Goose on the rocks) and that took almost 20 minutes to arrive. We split 2 appetizers (sauteed calamari C- and prosciutto w/mozerella D+). The entees were linguine w/white clam sauce C+, a cheese ravioli, the hit of the evening B- and I had the Ciopino special, a solid D. The calamari inside was very chewy and tasteless, the scampi was served in the shell and took way too much effort to peel and the broth was amazingly bland. Every other ciopino that I have had has been bursting with falvor. Not this one. Now for the kicker. IT WAS $40!!! I know that I should have asked the price when ordering it but never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be so much. Had it been great, or even good, I probably would have just shrugged it off but that kind of money for a seriously disappointing dish just really hurt. With so many other good Italian restaurants in Little Italy, I don't see this one sticking around very long without some BIG improvements.