I've been wanting to go to Gio Rana's Really Really Nice Restaurant (aka: the nose) for a long time now and finally made it tonight.
It didn't disappoint. I started with my classic 'lychee martini' I have this everywhere I go :P and then followed up with one of their fun cocktails (sexy mofo). Drinks were pretty good.
The food was great! They have a fantastically tasty selection of 'contourni' or side dishes. My favs were the green beans with mint and garlic and the asparagus with gorgonzola. The rapini with garlic and lemon is worth ordering too.
For my main, I had the garlic shrimp with crispy parmesan risotto cake - it was really flavorful but my only complaint was that the portion was pretty small (as is the case in many places when you order shrimp as a main dish). There were lots of other things on the menu at looked good so i will definitely go back and try them.
For desert I had the chocolate raspberry tartufo which was one of the best I've ever had.
I've read some of the other review and many people say they had bad service but our service was really good. Our waitress was attentive, friendly and spent a fair but if time talking to us after we paid.
Overall, costs were mid range but worth it from my perspective. Two of us ate for about $50 each which included a couple of drinks, sides, main dishes and desert.