My husband and I were here for a wine tasting groupon but we decided to go early to get dinner. The place itself is a little run down and not very clean.
We ordered the cheese plate which was pretty much huge chunks of cheese and some not so fresh prosciutto. The plate left us searching the table for some crackers or bread to eat it with. The waitress eventually brought out some bread rolls, which happen to be the highlight of the entire dinner.
My husband ordered the fresh pasta with shrimp and pesto sauce- there was no pesto sauce just oil. The pasta and the shrimp were fresh, but the dish was too oily for him and he was only able to eat the top 1/3 of the dish. I had the penne alforno, which was the better of the two dishes we ordered. It was bland but adding the cheese chucks from the cheese plate helped out the flavor.
We are somewhat of coffee snobs (we understand what true Italian coffee is) and the espresso and cappuccino we ordered tasted like they put Folgers Classic though the espresso machine. The desserts were nice.
If we lived closer to the the Ristorante we would try the pizza and subs that other reviewers raved about. The staff did seem very nice and we were greeted before we even walked in the door.