I was thoroughly impressed with everything about Splendido.
I had the jalapeno pasta, suckling pig and apple cobbler (to share). The pasta was really good, it's pretty spicy and the noodles are top notch. The suckling pig was undoubtedly the finest piece of pork I have ever tasted. It also comes with blood sausage, a sweet potato puree and some kind of pork rind like thing. I have only ever had blood sausage once before and found it to be revolting, but this was quite good. The cobbler was good, but nothing out of the ordinary. Maybe a bit too much topping and not enough filling for my tastes.
Food aside it's the service that's the best part about Splendido. People are taking your coat, offering your girlfriend a little bench for her purse, cleaning the crumbs off of your table, giving you helpful and insightful advice and offering to call you a cab home. The staff are excellent but are not stuffy in any way.
Which is also the nice thing about the space, it is not stuffy. It's nice but understated. I find sometimes in really nice restaurants you feel uncomfortable because you feel out of place but that is not the case at Splendido.
The only letdown is the washroom is nothing special. Given the attention to everything else I was expecting big things. I mean rust on your stainless steel soap dispensers, way to ruin an evening Splendido.