A little disappointed in this place. One of those situations where all the little things add up to make an overall underwhelmed experience.
First we were sat at our table outside on the patio there was dirty silverware on the floor under my chair. Easily overlooked but whoever cleaned up after the lunch shift should've caught it. And whoever opened for the dinner shift should've caught it as well.
Then our waiter brings us waters... I ask for straws and dish of lemons. He brings us back straws holding them in a bar napkin so not to touch them which is nice. But when he gets to the table he sets the straws down directly on the table. Now I'm not saying the table was dirty but it is an outdoors table and I am saying it was not clean enough to eat off of. So again something small but annoying nevertheless. Then he brings the lemons in a bar napkin and set them on the table as well. this is a relatively decent joint well it's supposed to be, you would think he would've initially brought them on a bread plate or some sort of dish/ramekin as I asked him to initially.
Next food. We order the mac & cheese as our waiter strongly recommends it. I thought it was not very good. I sent it back. The sauce had broke meaning that I did not come out as a rich creamy sauce it was basically penne pasta swimming in bath of oil. And again this is a small yet large thing.. The flavor profiles of the mac & cheese were good. The chorizo added a nice saltiness to it the jalapenos a nice spice the penne pasta was cooked well. But yet again either the sauce had broke or there was way too much chorizo either way it was not edible.
Then we order and the bruschetta trio. Again three great ideas but execution lacking. The beef and blue cheese bruschetta is a great idea and had fantastic flavor but there were pieces of meat on it that were literally not cooked. And by not cooked I mean raw. They were raw uncooked pieces of meat on our bruschetta. Again another good concept terrible execution.
Then our prosciutto asparagus bruschetta. There was two little slivers of asparagus. Prosciutto had some rainbow sheen going on with it so not sure how Quality it was. Then they use cream cheese as the spread on the bread. I mean at least use a brie cheese. What is this your rendition of bagels and lox with prosciutto? If it is cool but I think you could make it better. From ingredients to presentation
Then to top it off must ask the waiter 10 times for my girlfriend to get a sample of sangria to see if she likes it he never brought it the entire time he forgot multiple things. Not only bad customer service there but also lessening the sales for himself and the entire establishment. If she liked it who knows maybe she would've order two, I was driving that would've been $18 added to the bill.
Then they were out completely of red Zinfandel by the glass. How can you be a wine Bar and not have a glass of red Zin???
And there is more but this review is getting long.. I got to say is that they've got the makings for a good menu but between the incompetence we experienced from the front of the house (this could be isolated to our specific waiter I don't know as this is our first time ) and the lack of execution in the back of the house .....with so many other choices out there not a place that I would return to.