Do you like onion and garlic breath?
Do you like undercooked risotto?
Do you like mussels that tastes fishy and like they've been sitting in the fridge for too long?
Then get the seafood risotto.
If you're not a fan of the aforementioned (like me), stay away from seafood risotto. It was just plain bad. The onion and garlic lingered for hours. The risotto was hard to the bite. From watching lots of Hell's Kitchen, I get that risotto is hard to get right but for $26, I expected more. The seafood was also far from fresh.
Apart from the risotto, the service was great and I dig the decor and the open style kitchen.
We ordered our food earlier in the day because my dining group had another activities planned in the evening and were short on time. The food was ready when we showed up even though our party was not. Mercatto was very accommodating of our request.
Can't comment on the other food but that everything is on the expensive side and the quality is not there. I might give Mercatto another try, perhaps the other items are better, but until then, the risotto gets a 2.5.