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| - After Bill's gushing review, we were in the mood for Italian and decided to check out Amalfi.
Side note: "Amalfi" is apparently the correct name of the place (actually Amalfi Italian Cuisine) - and there is a review for "Amalfi", but this isn't it. "Amalfi's" was entered when the place was created, and has more reviews (3 to 1, soon to be 4 to 1), so I'm putting this here. I've asked the powers that be to combine them, and we'll see what happens.
Anyway - we were impressed with the service. It was a Sunday night, so things were pretty slow, but the service was friendly, and one area where other places fall flat (keeping the glasses full) was handled deftly here. They actually fill your glass and then bring you an extra so you can top yourself off in case they don't get back in time. Rarely does that happen, however, as many times they filled you up with the end of the second one, and then brought you another one of those. Very impressive.
When it came to the food, you could pick up the aroma from the parking lot - they like garlic and plenty of it. So if you don't, go elsewhere. There was garlic in the soup (red pepper and roasted garlic), on the bread (garlic knots), on the pizza (to be fair, I asked for it) and on the chicken (in hefty slices). They probably have a garden of the stuff. There was surely garlic in the sauces as well - this is just the garlic you could see.
Most everything was tasty, only a couple areas fell down.
The salad was a fairly wimpy side salad absolutely coated in dressing. This wouldn't be so bad, but to get it you have to choose between pasta and a salad with your entree. And if you want both? It's an extra charge. To make matters worse, neither the pasta nor the salad is particularly impressive or worth the charge. As much as I hate a la carte menus, it would be better to take that off the dinner and sell them a la carte so they could do them better.
I'll agree with Bill that the pizza crust is pretty good - a nice, thin crust that holds up well. Unfortunately the pizza itself was a bit off. I had a "white" pizza that strangely wasn't white. They could be avoiding Aryan stereotypes or something, I don't know. But rather than a bunch of cheese, it was a cheese base (ricotta), with another cheese on top (mozzarella, I think), and then a couple of meats (ham and canadian bacon). I also swapped out the sun-dried tomatoes for fresh garlic. Now I don't mind the ingredients, and for what they were, it wasn't bad. It was just strange that it was a white pizza is all, as I'd never had it before.
I also ended up dunking it in some of the leftover marinara from the garlic knots and it was a lot better. I think that if I had chosen a standard pizza (like pepperoni), I'd have liked it better. Sometimes the unusual choice can backfire, and here it did.
We finished up with a dessert, and I can't recall the name. It was a couple small scoops of ice cream that had a bit of raspberry in the center, and all of it was coated with chocolate. Pretty tasty really, and a lovely presentation.
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