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| - I was very excited about the opening of Andiamo. As a downtown resident, I love when new businesses open up here, but I thought this could be a game changer....and I was right.
We have (now) 3 high end steakhouses down here...VVIc & Anthony's, Oscars, and Andiamo.
I've always found Oscar's kind of gimmicky, while I love V&A's. But this place is one or two notches above.
It has a hip vibe (2013 hip, not 1940s hip). We were greeted nicely and seated immediately in a booth that may as well have been a private room, what with the 7 foot high banquette forming 335 degrees of a circle.
Service was quick and spectacular....observant but not obsequious. Caesar was made table side, and the fresh anchovies gave just the right of bite. The steaks are spectacular..I'm not sure how they age them, and who their purveyor is, but they rank very, very high in flavor and tenderness.
As my wife isn't a wine drinker, I didn't pay much attention to the by-the-bottle list, but the by-the-glass selections were all fantastic. My only complaint is that they had no Zins by the glass, so I settled for a beautiul Cab.
The deserts goiing by on the cart (repeatedly) looked gorgeous, so we had to splurge. We had a creme brulee (let's face it a well done brulee is a well done brulee...there's only so far you can go) a dessert called "Kit Kat" which is a homemade, delicious version of the execrable candies, and the most amazing chocolate cake with ganache frosting
No dish failed to live up to expectation...and no dish faled to surpass expectation.
THe food, ambiance and service were all top-notch,
I for one welcome the newcomer to the block.
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