Bought a groupon for this place, knowing how good the food is since I had been here before! $20 for $40 worth of food. The groupon stated you must call in advance by phone (not on open table) and make a resv to use the groupon. It also said one groupon per table and there were 2 couples that went here that evening. When I called the day before our dinner I was told by a man on the phone (sounded Italian...but then again, everyone at this place sounds Italian and I think they fake that accent, by the way!) there is no need for a resv for 4 at 6:30 PM..."just come-a in-a (that's the Italian accent)." So that is what we did. And WHEN we got there the place was pretty much packed!! The first question out of the host's mouth, "Ummm....do you-a have a reservation?" I nearly lost it. However, after my 1.5 min rant about TRYING to make a resv in advance, they quickly seated us at a table for 4....in the crammed, wee corner of the place right by the front door and host station and in front of the line where servers pick up food. But at least it was a table!
The server was friendly. We had brought a dozen cupcakes to celebrate my friend's birthday and they stored them for us in the back since the table was the size of my hand. We ordered a bottle of sangiovese....that came with a screw top cap (not corked) and was so so. I had the penne pasta with chicken and vodka sauce. Pretty good and HUGE portion (took most of it home). Mid way through dinner my husband looked over his left shoulder and then pointed out the 3 inch cockroach crawling on the floor about 4 feet away from our tiny table!! Ewwwwwwww. I know every restaurant has cockroaches but it was gross. We did not order dessert because we had the cupcakes and we couldn't stop thinking about the cockroach. Server was kind enough to let us use BOTH groupons, even though it did state one per table.