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| - I've been here 3 times so far on separate occasions for happy hour, lunch, and dinner. If I was just judging on the happy hour and lunch, I would say this would be about a 4 star experience, but dinner really fell flat.
The first time my husband and I came in was for happy hour, which is daily from 2-6pm. We had the grapefruit margaritas, which were very refreshing with fresh squeezed grapefruit juice. After the margarita we decided to change it up with an apple martini, which wasn't nearly as good as the margarita.
Our second visit was for lunch. We decided on the calamari salad and the drunk bread. The calamari was lightly fried and cooked very well, over mixed greens, with capers, onions, and pieces of crab meat. The crab meat was a little fishy, and as much as I love crab it didn't really do anything for the dish and I could have done without it. The drunk bread was a large piece of day old bread, cooked in a skillet with white wine and swiss cheese. This was very good, like a fondue grilled cheese combination, but a little pricey for $12.
Our third visit was for dinner. I decided on the veggie pasta with pesto and my husband had the margherita pizza. My pasta was a small portion of spaghetti with spiraled veggies, with a pesto sauce. My dish had decent flavor, but the pesto was too oily for my taste (I've made better at home) and just wasn't very impressive. Also, the portion size seemed skimpy at $16. My husband's pizza was just weird. It was stated as a "margherita" on the menu, which we were expecting more of a traditional Napoli pizza with fresh mozzarella. It really was just a cheese pizza with a few ribbons of basil on it, it tasted decent but like a NY style pizza and was salty. Also, you couldn't really taste the sauce. The weirdest thing about the pizza was that there was a blob of buffalo mozzarella on top of the cheese pizza. The pizza would have been way better if they just used the buffalo mozzarella INSTEAD of the shredded mozzarella, it was odd to have both. Seems like they were being a little frugal on the ingredients.
So I will be back again, but probably just for happy hour or lunch. I would not recommend dinner, as it's overpriced for what you get.
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