WHERE IS THE DARN ENTRANCE?!
Came here with a group to celebrate a friend's birthday and was seated upstairs which was nice and lonely. Nothing really appealed to me because they seemed like common Italian dishes with inflated prices. I ended up ordering the orecchiette pugliese (with fennel sausage, rapini and peperoncini; $16.95). The portion was small, pasta a bit too oily and the rapini bitterness was overwhelming. Wasn't too impressed. Friend got a tiramisu and I had a bite, way too much mascarpone...where were the lady fingers! Pick me up? Put me down!
A the start of the meal, they give you these packaged bread sticks in vases which taste like nothing, with a balsamic vinegar + olive oil dip but it is quite impossible to get any of the vinegar which is trapped below the olive oil. The menu also has fine print saying there is complimentary bread upon request which I thought was the oddest thing and since I love bread, I asked for it! Anddd sadly, it wasn't that great.
At the end of the dinner, none of us found our meals very good...we all went to buy food afterwards, yikes. There was also a 18% gratuity which was extremely steep, especially since we got very little service.
One positive point is that the decor is quite nice inside.