Finally decided to have a date night here after seeing the restaurant advertised numerous times - in hindsight we should have visited one of the many other highly rated Italian restaurants in the city.
Pros:
- The Lamb Ragout risotto was excellent
- The ambience was nice, staff other than our server seemed friendly
Cons:
- Our service was very poor. We initially thought our server was just a little quirky but as we got further into our meal we realized he was just a bad server.
- My duck breast was served very well done, even though I ordered it medium rare (and the server even told me that the typical way it was served was medium rare). It came out grey and dry. Ten minutes after being served, the server walked past us and asked if everything was good and I told him that my duck was way too over cooked. His response: "It's ok though right?", and then he walked away. I've never experienced that kind of reaction when telling the server of a nice restaurant that my meal was not properly cooked.
- My wife ordered the cioppino, and almost all of the seafood was over cooked. Beautiful scallops, large shrimp, and a full squid - all ruined by cooking them until chewy. A real disappointment.
After the lamb risotto we had very high expectations for the main meal but unfortunately it was a total disappointment. Good service could have salvaged the meal but instead the service made it worse. We will not return.