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| - I'm going to follow suit with Stephanie S's review and say this place was rather disappointing for it's price and quality.
First off I'll go ahead and mentioned that the service was great. They were friendly and had a great attitude. Even though it was busy, their pleasantness buys them the time they need having to cover a room/patio full of needy people.
We started with their calamari fritto, which was pretty much deep fried calamari. I can't complain, it was well fried and far from the rubbery alternative I've had in the past.
Next we jumped to the secondi or MAIN DISHES (for crying out loud). I had the bolognese, and my companion had the salmon served on quinoa on "MIXED GREENS, APPLE PEAR, QUINOA, PUMPKIN SEEDS, HEIRLOOM CARROTS, CANNELLINI BEANS, YUZU DRESSING" which really was, just a salad. This is where I became vastly disappointed with Vero. The salmon was grilled well and avoided dooming itself into dry and flaky oblivion, but the salad really was just a salad, I couldn't discern certain pieces from another. The bolognese (allow me to put on my food snob hat) looked like fast food Filipino PALABOK, which is a peasant's dish. It was watery brown sauce with ground beef and lacking in aroma. I could compare it to something else that's watery and brown, but that would be unappetizing. I'm not sure what they put into their slow cooker for 12 hours for it come out like this, but I don't think it's what bolognese is supposed to be made out of. Their handmade noodles were chewy, which was fine by me, but didn't stand a chance in holding the sauce together. The marriage between noodle and sauce is italian cooking 201 (101 teaches you how to boil spaghetti) and for an italian/french bistro, this was a GREAT miss.
Our bill came to just a shy 100$ I was happy to be full from a day of skipping meals, but felt I could have just gotten a better experience if I'd have driven the other side of the city to boxwood, where I would have paid much less.
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