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| - This is a hard one. I went with 3 other people, and based on their takes- I'd have to give it a 3 star review. However, for me it was a 4 star- and this review is MY opinion, right?
We decided to try SOLO for the first time during Restaurant Week after looking up their menus and reviews and both looking good. Sweet Pea and I got there before our dining companions and were quickly seated without issue. The person who seated us said that they were featuring a couple of wines, and after he readily offered a taste (which we really liked), we decided to go with the Italian red. I know this is a family run restaurant, and he appeared to be one of the sons and also in charge of the wine program. He seemed pretty knowledgeable and the wine was excellent. Oh- and wine by the bottle was 1/2 price for Restaurant Week. What a nice touch- we ordered 2.
Our server came to the table right away, and we were soon presented with some bread and olive oil, which I passed on but Sweet Pea partook of. He didn't say anything about it either way, so I'll assume it was adequate. Once our companions arrived and the server went over the Restaurant Week menu, I was a little sad to see that the pizza featured on the menu had meat on it. I mentioned this to our waitress, and she went back to the kitchen to talk options. She came back with several vegetarian alternatives that weren't on the Restaurant Week menu, and she said they could do the Margherita pizza as well. I was sold on that, as well as on the beet salad. I love beets. I told Sweet Pea that I'd read on Yelp that the meatballs are excellent, and he ordered those. He and another dining companion ordered the gnudi as well.
I loved my beet salad. Great arugula, great goat cheese, really great chunks of beets, and great dressing. In fact, I offered it around the table, and it was a big hit with everyone. The meatballs were also a big hit. Sweet Pea says they are excellent. My pizza was also very good and quite large. Unfortunately there was a bit of a timing issue where I and another one of us were served, and it was a good 5 minutes before everyone else's came, and since we waited- it was cold. It would have been better hot of course. People rave about the crust and it was good, I'd order it again, but to me it doesn't compare with my beloved Cibo, or Bianco, or Pomo. Unfortunately, Sweet Pea and the other diner who ordered the gnudi didn't like it at all due to the sauce. It was described as a "horseradish gremolta", but both of them commented that it had an odd and not good taste. On the recommendation of the server, I tried a dessert that came with a scoop of vanilla gelato, a house made biscotti, and a shot of espresso. It was delicious, all of it- even the biscotti, and I am NOT a biscotti fan. The other diners enjoyed the turtle cheesecake, but I can't comment on that as I am not a cheesecake fan.
One comment on the service- everyone was friendly, but it could have been more even. As I already said, the guy who sat us and recommended the wine was really friendly and knowledgeable. The server was very friendly and willing to go the extra step for me as a vegetarian, which was nice. Someone else, I'm assuming an owner, came by to ask how our meal was. Very nice touch. It's the pacing that was an issue. At the beginning of the meal, our server came by expectantly as we'd just sat down asking if we were ready to order, which felt very rushed. I asked her to come back, and she gave it a good amount of time before she came back, which was good. Somewhere after that, things fell apart a bit. As I've said already, the timing of the food coming out was a bit problematic. The clearing (or lack thereof) was also problematic. They brought our entees when our first courses weren't cleared, and so they had to sit them next to eachother on an already-crowded table, which was awkward. There were a lot of long awkward pauses in the flow of the meal. If SOLO can even all of that out, it would make it that much greater of an experience.
Overall, I really liked it, my companions liked a lot of it, and we'll all be back.
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