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| - Ate here with friends on a Saturday night. We were rushed to leave from the moment we walked in due to a function/Christmas party occurring later on in the evening.
To start they asked us if we wanted sparkling or flat. We asked for both and wanted to know the brand, they had mentioned it was a in house filtered 'Q' water. Which is something you can buy at the Bay or the shopping network, nothing extravagant, other than the price you pay for in house filtered water.
Now onto the service and meal, they have a nicely sized wine cellar with some very nice names. Nothing on the reasonable side, which would make you feel that this is a high end restaurant. We ordered a ripasso, very good! Because we knew we didn't have much time to eat before we had to leave, and were hungry, we decided to skip appetizers and order our main courses. This was a big mistake, the food took extremely long to come, which left us just sitting, drinking wine and water for about 30 minutes. I found this very surprising because the restaurant was only half full. It got to the point that we were so hungry and saw other eating some bread baskets that we asked if we could have one as well. (You have to pay for bread, $4 very uncommon) Finally after a few minutes after ordering some bread our meal came. I do have to admit although small portion it was delicious, I had the casarecche bolognese, the taste and flavours were amazing. My other two friends had the spaghetti amatriciana and short ribs. They both said it was very flavourful. Our bread that we ordered came halfway ther ought our mains but we also very good.
For desert we ordered the salted caramel bodino (yum) and walnut and chocolate torte (very rich).
All in all I think this place has potential they just need to work on a few things, better service, enlarge the portions if they are going to be so pricey. But the food is well made and flavourful which is the most important thing.
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