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| - After seeing the great reviews for this place, I decided on coming here for a group dinner before going out for my birthday. I'm not sure if things have drastically declined since a lot of the reviews I read were written in 2010-2011 or if we just had an off experience, but none of us (party of 14) were impressed...
The downstairs is cute and quaint and I'm sure it would have been a different atmosphere if we had dined there. We were seated upstairs, which was nice since we had a big party, but was also awkward, b/c we felt like we were just placed in an attic - quiet, cold, just awkward.
Food: Shared the fingerling potatoes and spinach and ricotta pizza with a few friends. Potatoes were dry and meh - garlic aoili was delish! The ricotta pizza was good, but legit was just dough, ricotta, and spinach - not much to it. I dipped it in the garlic aoili which made it tastier. Ordered the Risotto primavera as an entree. It was completely bland. The eggplant and the broccoli looked and tasted like they were old (broc looked like it may have been overdone but it actually tasted pretty nasty too). I asked for hot sauce, which wasn't brought to me until the end of the meal, so it didn't really help much. I did have extra garlic aoili on the table so I mixed some with the risotto, which kind of helped. Moral of the story? Ask for a side of garlic aoili to enhance flavor that's lacking. Everyone at the table pretty much had the same experience with their food that I did. Items that people really did enjoy included the margherita pizza and the apple and walnut salad.
Drinks: the specialty drinks were pretty tasty- the margarita was good. I had a few vodka waters and they were made pretty strong which was good.
Service: We didn't have the best service. The waiter was kind of awkward and seemed out of it. It probably didn't help that they gave him our entire table with no help, but service was slow, he kept forgetting to bring things over until we requested it twice or three times, and overall service was lacking.
Price: Judging from the quality of the food and service we received, we didn't really think the prices were worth it. If this was an off night and food and service are usually good, I could see why they charge what they do, but from what we received - not so much.
I doubt I'll return to Light Bistro- I always like trying new places and it sucks that we had this experience for a birthday dinner- we all went out on empty stomachs after the restaurant -but hey - at least that made for a cheaper night out??
**PERK of this place is that they have free valet parking on Fridays and Saturdays!!
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