I got a gift certificate from a family friend at my going away party before I moved here. For some reason I thought this was an Indian restaurant so was kinda shocked by the Italian menu.
There was this guy that seated us and got us drinks and waters and he was amazing. He told me his name like 3 times and I wish I could remember it now and give him a shout out cause he was awesome. Our actual waitress on the other hand was very green i.e. didn't know a lot about the menu and the ingredients, but did nothing wrong.
I ordered the Pescatore and before ordering the white sauce, I asked if this was like a white wine sauce and she said yes so I was assuming that it wouldn't come in a straight up alfredo sauce. Seriously guys seafood and dairy don't go together so I was kind of upset, but my dude ordered the Tuna which was very nice. It was sesame crusted and he subbed vegetable risotto for the jasmine rice salad. The tuna was a little bland but when dipped in the sweet chili sauce it was perfectly flavored. So I ended up switching with him.
Oh I almost forgot I also got the beet salad to start and it was very good. The greens in the center had an amazing salad dressing on it and I have been trying to imitate it at home. My dude got the caprese salad and it came with 2 different types of tomatoes - yellow and red and the yellow were great but the red ones you could tell from the minute the plate was put down were not good toms. I don't want to talk shit on the Cleve but what's the deal with the toms around here. Everywhere I go has shitty toms. It's august, it's tom time. If you know of a place with good toms send me a shout.
Finally, it was a wine bar, but it had a nice selection of bottles (nothing on draft from what I could tell). Their seasonal section was nice, with tons of pumpkin beers, mighty tasty.