I award two stars because the bread is, indeed, fantastic. Other than that, I was underwhelmed by the pretentiousness. The decor is painfully cute. No, this is not what casual but sophisticated places look like in Europe, although communal tables are common overseas. The menu is very limited and each dish seems designed to wow with an ingredient one wouldn't expect. Why not just make something that tastes good? Why does it have to be "different" just to be "different"?
I had the chicken salad. The chicken was good but there wasn't much of it. It was somewhat overwhelmed by mustard and the rest of the salad consisted of a pile of arugula and dates. Forgive me if I sound like a rube for never experiencing dates with mustard before. But I won't be doing it again. If the pizzas available at Pizzeria Bianco are also made here, that wasn't clear from the menu the day I visited. There was a pizza of the day, again with some unusual addition designed to turn heads. I'm sure the ingredients such as the fresh herbs and house-made mozzarella are superb here as they are in Bianco's other establishments, but they SHOULD BE given the prices.
Get the bread to go. Otherwise the main reason to dine here is to be seen somewhere that Phoenicians who never leave the Southwest think is European.