Went here for a late lunch today while doing some Christmas shopping. When you first walk in the ambience is really nice. Rustic look and staff is very friendly. Got a table relatively quickly (table for 2), accidentally we were assigned a bigger table, and front of the house had to tell us to to go back to the front so they can move us to a smaller table. They were apologetic, mistakes happen.
We waited a good 10 minutes before a server arrived with menus. We ordered one of the $24.95 daily meals. Chose the roasted squat and ricotta bruschetta, the mushroom pasta and for desert the orange blossom polenta cake. Also ordered the Parma pizza.
Order of things must have gotten mixed up, cause a table in our section got their apps before us but we ordered first. The main came for us before them (our app came after the main so might have been forgotten). The bruschetta was the highlight of the meal. Flavour was delicious and so creative. Lots of different elements in it. The fungi pasta had great flavour but didn't find it to have much mushroom variety and was on the small size, pizza was nice as well. My only problem with the mains was the serving temperature. Everything came out lukewarm at best. I noticed a hamburger that was put on the warmers and must have sat there for a good 8 min before being taken to its table (only item so not like they were waiting for the rest of the table to get theirs). Plates were hot but pizza was a bit on the cold side. Pasta sauce already settled when it came to our table. Polenta cake was nice. Nice hints of orange in the cake and the pomegranate was a nice compliment.
Overall for the price I expected more. After tip lunch was about $65 (no alcohol) , I expected more. Would probably not be visiting again