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| - We went here with a Living Social coupon; we'd spotted it before and thought it looked interesting.
This used to be a gelato parlor, and in many ways, it still is. There are few tables. The depressing atmosphere really kills any sense of the space (which is high ceilings and vintage detail) -- it is painted battleship-gray. Dark and depressing.
The tables are unfinished oak -- looks pretty, but has already absorbed a LOT of olive oil....who ever thought this was a good idea, needs a serious re-think. The high ceilings make this noisy and unpleasant.
The good points: the pizza is tasty....chewy crust and interesting toppings. They are VERY small -- about 9" I think. Not enough to share unless you just want a snack. At $10-14, this is a lot -- you could get a big X-large somewhere else. But it was tasty.
The bad: everything else. Antipasto was basically a de-constructed pizza -- same dough as bread, same salumi, same proscuitto. It was good but like eating the same thing over again! The olives were pitted, jarred Kalamatas, which was disappointing.
As someone else said, they seem to be barely set up to serve pizza and a few salads. They appear to be baking the pizzas ONE AT A TIME in a teeny tiny brick oven at the back. SO this takes forever. We spent almost two hours there, mostly waiting for our food.
The worst: the help was just terrible....distracted. The table service barely exists. Most people order their pizza at the gelato stand. At these prices, this seems unfair. Also: we found two hairs in our antipasto, which clearly came from the server. EWWW. They disappeared around check time as well, and we had to pay at the gelato counter.
Gelato is very good, but honestly, you don't expect a "bistro" to be an ice cream parlor that serves pizza half-heartedly. Which is what this is.
In short: good pizza, but know what you are getting into. This is a downbeat, unfriendly place for a date that feels like you are eating in the laundry room of a basement.
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