| rev:text
| - Went to Amalfi today for lunch. It was my first visit and my wife's second. The food was outstanding. The stracciatella soup, described by a previous reviewer, was the best soup I have ever eaten. Really. The Greek salad was wonderful. Because I am on a diet, I am often hesitant to order Greek salads because many restaurants douse them with high-calorie dressing. This salad had a vinagrette dressing applied sparingly. The salad itself was so flavorful it didn't need much dressing. Couldn't resist the freshly baked bread even though I am trying to avoid starch. My wife is a connoisseur of Italian food and loved her fettuccine alfredo. The wait staff was friendly and attentive. The lunch prices are quite reasonable. For slightly more than you would spend at a fast-food restaurant, you can have a delicious and--if you choose wisely and resist temptation--healthy sit-down meal.
UPDATE:
My wife and I went to Amalfi this evening to celebrate a special occasion. Our experience was just as good as before. In fact, we both ordered the same menu items as described in my first review. Hey, if you find something you like, why change?
I would like to address a criticism another reviewer had of my previous review: I described the loaf of bread served before the main course as "freshly baked." The other reviewer said it could not have been freshly baked because he saw it sitting in a bin under a heat lamp. This time, I asked our server, James, point blank whether the bread was freshly baked. He said, "Yes, it just came out of the oven. We make it here using the same ingredients as the pizza dough."
Granted, I was not in the kitchen when the bread came out of the oven. But I'm certain that the bread was freshly baked, just as surely as I can identify a potato that is twice-baked and someone who is half-baked. If the bread sat under the heat lamp, it could have been for no more than a few minutes.
This was the third visit in a row we have been served by James. He is always attentive, courteous, witty, and smiley.
One clue that the food is authentic is that the cooks speak to each other in Italian. Granted, I don't speak Italian, and they may have been speaking in gibberish just to fool me. But I'm not into conspiracy theories.
What could have been better? Well, my wife said the women's restroom was a little warm, as if the air conditioning wasn't quite reaching it. And because I am not a sports fan, I would have preferred to have been seated closer to the TV showing some people building a log cabin than the TV showing a soccer game. Other than that, neither I nor my wife has any complaints. Still five stars.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)