Ahhh...Food Fight, with your trendy spaces and Sysco food.
Cento's space is beautiful and I enjoyed the music and the lighting.
The food is bland and attention to detail is lacking. Pastas all needed seasoning and came out cold. The "fried squid" app was fried calamari. I tasted all four pastas at our table and was not impressed with one.
Did I mention Cento is absurdly overpriced? $34 for pasta with a very small amount of seafood? And the seafood itself was far from fresh. Mussels were soggy/mealy, the one piece of shrimp was WAY undercooked.
You pay for the ambiance and to rub shoulders with Madison's "elite" but expect to eat bland food and to put a healthy charge on your credit card.
Almost forgot to mention the hard sell on gift cards at the end of the meal. The server turned into an infomercial. Stay classy, Cento.