If you want to take your parents out for dinner, this is the place. The food ranges from OK to good. Nothing on the menu is particularly challenging. The atmosphere in attractive and relaxed. The service is fantastic.
We started dinner with a cocktail and some bread. The cocktail glass was sticky-- ew. But the bread was warm, fresh and crusty with a wonderful tapenade-- salty and savory.
We had the house calamari as an appetizer. It was your basic fried, breaded calamari tossed with some of the tapenade, sundried tomatoes and mushrooms. I liked this twist on the same old fried calamari!
I had the saltimboca pork chops. You would think that pork chops covered in prosciutto and stuffed with cheese would be really juicy. Not so much. The prosciutto was completely dried out and the chop was very well done. Not bad tasting, just a bit overcooked. It was served with baby vegetables-- nicely crisp tender-- and a square of deep fried risotto-- really good.
My dining companions had the seafood risotto and the salmon-- pronounced very good. They accommodated my daughter by offering a bowl of pasta with butter and cheese. Second graders love that sort of thing. The deserts were boring. Our tiramisu wasn't bad, but wasn't particularly good, just sort of there. My daughter actually left half her sundae. Wow!
The service, however, was really outstanding. Our waiter was friendly but not intrusive. He was a real professional-- there when you needed him, politely at a distance when you did not. The serving staff and the bussers were also polite and unobtrusive. I would give the staff 5 stars!
I really appreciated the waiter giving the price of each special. He also gave the approximate number of ounces of seafood or meat in each dish. Nice!