I ate here last Saturday night. While the food was all tasty (we cleaned our plates), I cannot say that I was amazed- I have definitely had better Italian food. I did appreciate that you could see right into the kitchen, and they even had seats surrounding the kitchen area if your heart so desires. This gives me a little more confidence that I am eating quality food that was not premade or thrown around in a dirty kitchen.
For me, what really killed this place was the atmosphere. There are TV's surrounding all the tables which play scenes from famous mafia-like movies. The restaurant blasts (I repeat, BLASTS) iconic tunes from these movies, but will occasionally put the sound clips of the movies for particularly vulgar scenes. If the incredibly loud music/clips does not prevent you from having a conversation, the fact that you are surrounded by distracting TV's certainly will. As a side note, please do not take children here- the restaurant has made the poor decision of showing very violent scenes (yes- while people are eating?) and does not bleep out the curses when they play sound clips. Not very tasteful if you ask me.