After reading yelp reviews for over an hour, I found this restaurant whose chef happened to beat Cat Cora in Iron Chef, I had to try it. We passed by it earlier when driving and the strip mall is nothing to write home about. In fact, it looks very 1970's. I never thought there would be such a good restaurant in this mall.
The service is absolutely OUTSTANDING! The water glasses never were more than half empty, food came out quickly (not pushy quickly), and the waitress did an AWESOME job describing the dishes. She clearly is a foodie. Being a foodie myself, I like hearing people describe food very expressively.
Wine - fantastic wine list! We were looking at wines and the waitress recommended one which was fantastic.- Carpaccio - good and alot of it. (it was a bit heavy on the salt and I love salt). Mussels - you get a ton of them but the flavor wasn't as flavorful as I would have expected. The chicken sausage w/tomatoes, fresh pasta ribbons in a parmesean broth - EXCELLENT! Bread - excellent.
My expectations were that of a 5 star restaurant, the experience was 5 stars, food 4 (only because of being an Iron Chef winner).
Menu is well rounded and offers many differen options - all farm fresh.