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| - The decor is absolutely lovely. Instead of Olive Garden's rustic country look, we have Rome, with columns and marble. The ceilings are high, the lighting just right, and an extensive line of very tall french doors on two sides with cheerful black-and-white awnings outside lets in lots of sunlight in an elegant way. Totally suitable for a wedding rehearsal dinner, a business dinner, parents coming into town, or a date where you want a little more light on your table than you get with Carrabba's.
Bravo! is well-suited for the handicapped, since the tables are high enough to accommodate the controls of a powered wheelchair. Elsewhere, like Olive Garden, lower tables are too low for the controls to go under, so this requires an awkward angled seating position for the person in the chair, making it difficult to eat. Yea, Bravo! for getting it right.
Service was gracious, fast, and attentive. We arrived around 11 a.m. on a weekday and were apparently the first ones there. As noon approached, the restaurant filled up significantly. Our host was welcoming and helpful in making sure mom's wheelchair was able to go where it needed to go. Our server was a very pleasant young blond woman with a smooth ponytail who supplied us with helpful suggestions, kept our glasses filled, and did everything we wanted timely. No complaints here!
The food had high and low points. By comparison, Carrabba's is the dark grotto with the really, really rich food hot and fresh off the grill and always delish. My fave. Bravo! was lighter and in some ways more interesting. but also less consistent. This was our first time here, so we requested and got lots of suggestions from the waitress. The salads were more interesting than those served by their competition. We ordered the chopped Italian salad and the rustica salad. The latter has a really impressive appearance, lots of "stuff" on it, and a pleasing sweet dressing that tasted homemade. The chopped salad looked smaller and more ordinary but had a very light, pleasant, fresh flavor. Yum.
My entree, a chicken-over-ziti dish, was disappointing. It obviously sat under a heat lamp for a while and got dried-out. They are apparently economizing on the sauce quantity, since there was not enough sauce for the ziti to capture any at all in the hollow centers; I requested extra sauce (unusual for me), they supplied a small extra metal vessel of it without complaint and without extra charge, and that was enough. Fresh tasting. I could do as well at home for far less money, though.
Mom had the lasagna, which was cheesy, good, and generously portioned. For dessert, there was creme brulee, which was freshly made and which she really liked. She actually ate all the lasagna leftovers at home that night. Very unusual.
Overall, the bill was higher than we would have liked but reasonable for such a beautiful setting. I still prefer Carrabba's, but we look forward to revisiting Bravo! when we come to Northlake Mall in the future.
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