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| - Food here was pretty good -- but then again we'd waited so long, anything would taste good....service was disappointing (see time stamps/end).
Starting with the positives- the truffle mushroom pizza was really actually pretty delicious. I'm very picky about truffle oil, after I had a very poor experience that turned me off. Anything too overbearing and I won't eat it. This is a good level of truffle oil. The goat cheese is a good balance to the truffle oil, and the basil is light and complementary.
The pasta bolognese though....umm, strange. There was a very clove(?)-y taste to it that was not expected. Maybe that's not my taste which I get. However, the pappardelle (oh, I forgot I'm not a pappardelle person so bad combo maybe) was nowhere close to al dente. It was soggy. OH and lukewarm - but I'll chalk that up to us having to wait 45 minutes for a pasta. The garlic bread with this was the highlight, but also - very lukewarm.
Now service......ok so it was a Friday night. The place wasn't packed, but I guess it was fairly full. Still, my friends walked in and were seated right away. Within 10 minutes of ordering, we get our house salads. Following that - nothing for 35 minutes. idk about you, but I like to eat my salads with my entrees and multiple waiters kept coming to try and take my salad away as I waited another 35 minutes for my pasta/pizza. My friend nearly finished her pinot noir that she had ordered specifically to go with the bolognese as well so I guess you could say we were unimpressed with the wait time.
The part that disappointed me most was seeing multiple parties come in after us, get their food, and LEAVE before we got our food/as our food just arrived. So while I really wanted to like this place, I cannot say I will be coming here again. IF i were to come back, I would order differently and just stick with the pizza though - so keep that in mind if you swing by.
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