I REALLY wanted to give this 4 stars. I really did. But unfortunately I cant. I met 3 friends for dinner last week for a birthday on good reviews from google & yelp.
We ordered a bottle of wine (Cabernet Sauvignon- McMannis) which was very delicious!! (highly recommended) And for Appetizers we ordered the Bruschetta & the charcuterie board.
The Brushetta was fine-nothing special. Just garlicky tomatoes on 4 pieces of bread- honestly it was kind of boring.
The Charcuterie board was beautiful but it didn't have much on it! Like when I say it was a small board, I think between the 4 of us we each got one piece of dried/smoked meat, 2 olives, and a SMALL amount of cheese..pretty disappointing especially for an Italian restaurant.
I ordered the Fish Cioppino for my main. For me although it was tasty, it didn't really seem like a coippino. A cioppino is supposed to have broth which this didn't- it just had tomato sauce. I would call it "assorted fish with tomato sauce". And only 2 small pieces of toast? What am I supposed to do with those? For $33 at least give me some real bread- not that crusty stuff that doesn't sop up broth (or lack thereof). There was lots of fish, just a serious lack of broth!! Stop smothering everything in tomato sauce-- 2 of the other meals that showed up were smothered as well.
For desert I had the Toblerone cake. Very good! I took a bite of it before taking a picture (whoops lol) and a Spanish Coffee.
To be honest, when I go to an expensive Italian place & have a full 3 course meal and come out saying the best item I had was Spanish Coffee...you know there's an issue.
So 3/5. Sorry Michaels. Its not like anything was bad. It just wasn't great. And for 4 people @ $330 before Tip, it should be great.
Maybe I'll try again one day!