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For our first course, we shared several dishes: the Etna pizza, anchovy crostini, octopus salad, and beef carpaccio. The pizza held such promise based on the description on the menu (tomato sauce, fior di latte, rapini, house made chili oil, house made Sicilian spicy sausage) but the execution left much to be desired. It came out tasting very bland and mostly of the dough on which the sparse ingredients were laid. It was a similar story with the lackluster other dishes.
For our second course, a bunch of us ordered the lobster ravioli...problem was, they ran out of ravioli so had to substitute with bowtie pasta, which turned out to be a disaster. At least they gave us an option to switch, that I seized on to pick the salsiccia, which ended up being half-decent but nothing to write home about.
The wine list was meh and no option to pay corkage and BYOW. As a result, I'm sorry to say that I will not be rushing back here.
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