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| - As my friend would say, "This place is grown and sexy". Love the dim lighting and the red curtains. I love the huge bar area. Four of us girls dined here for dinner and sat at a high table in the bar area. Our server was friendly and attentive and the bartender even came over and chatted it up with us.
We all had wine and I went with a Malbec. It was a good choice recommended by the bartender. When our server brought over bread and butter, I was so excited to see that it wasn't normal butter. I love when restaurants don't have normal butter and the sundried tomato and basil butter exceeded my butter expectations. For starters, we shared the clams and fried calamari. The clams were in a olive oil, garlic, and oregano broth and dipping the bread in it made it even better. The clams were baby clams and were good, but a bit gritty. I liked the calamari. They were light, and even thought the garlic sauce on them was good, I'm old school Italian and would have preferred traditional marinara or fra diavlo dipping sauce.
Like many other Yelpers, I went with the Gnocchi alla Vodka. I'm an Gnocchi snob, but Va Bene passes my Gnocchi test. Definitely homemade, light and fluffy. The sauce was SO flavorful. I only ordered a half order of the Gnocchi and was kicking myself after for not getting a whole order!
One thing I did not like about the restaurant was that the music was on a pop station. If I'm in a nice Italian restaurant, I don't feel like listening to Lady Gaga. I know they have live Jazz on the weekends, so why not play Jazz music on the radio every night?!
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