I'll start off with the good - the cocktails are delicious and service is good. Unfortunately, it ends there -- the food is beyond bad. Probably some of the worst I've had in the city.
We ordered quite a bit a bit of food and there was not a single good dish.
- The bread at the beginning is basically toasted pita. I think they're trying to pawn it off as focaccia?
- Pretty sure the calamari was pre-battered and frozen. We couldn't even finish them and they're usually my favourite item on any menu.
- The caponata crostini were on a stale baguette-ish bread, or maybe a sub bun? Smothered in something more akin to cheez whiz than asiago.
- The beef carpaccio was actually Bresaola, which is a cured meat....so, not carpaccio at all! It was covered by what looked like pre-cut romaine out of a salad mix bag..a little dry with some random vegetables thrown in.
- As a main, we got a pulled beef pizza. The beef tasted old and the pizza was overly-salted and very soggy. And not the good, Napoleatan type of soggy. It was just drenched in liquid! Terrible.
Overall, I would not go back to Osteria if you paid me.