We thought we would try this place again, especially since they were sending out $20.00 coupons. We arrive around 5pm which was during happy hour for dinner. The appetizers for happy hour run between 5-9 dollars. If you are with more than two people make sure you ask your wait staff how many appetizers are there on a particular item, as there was a few of us and we ordered the mozzarella cakes, but only 2 came with the plate for a whopping $7.00 - this app was way over priced. The stuff dates with the goat cheese and brie is by far our favorite. Yes they were out of something as usual but lo and behold they sent someone next door to Sprouts to pick up the green tea and this made our day. This is what I am talking about - good customer service. They have made lots of changes since our last visit and the place is pretty packed now especially since Groupon has been selling $30 coupons for $15.00...over 3500 have been purchased thus far.
We are the eggplant parmgiana, which was perfect not to thick and no to thin..cooked perfectly. We also ordered the new item Eggplant Rollitini which was huge so we had to split it and was very good - thinly sliced eggplant wrapped with ricotta cheese atop a bed of pasta which is cooked al dente.
I was surprised how good the food was and think they have a new cook. The one think I do not like is - this place is an Italian restaurant and you are going to need bread to wipe up all the sauce on your plate, but they no longer have free bread. They only have bread baskets if you pay for it, I have never in my life been to a place where they charge for bread. Yes it is $2.00 and the asst manager explained the reason why but the reasoning was about their staff not doing the job so it was easier to charge for the bread and keep it hot if they went by bread orders....Kind of cheesey. It will be interesting to see if the people keep coming back after the coupons expire. The wait staff has been updated and I think the asst mgr and cook are knew. It is good to know they are now pleasing the customer and cooking some really good food. I still don't like the pizzas, but the panini's are real good and of course the eggplant dishes. The fact they went to Sprouts to get green tea for us which was awesome esp since our table drank like 20 cups of it, they are taking the time out to meet the needs of the customers is why I gave it 4 stars.