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| - My love for Tommy V's skills to impress customers is balanced out with their over-eagerness to be snobby as shit at all times, thus averaging out to an A-OK review.
The pros about this place include decent food and great management. Since my party of 20 was there for a bday party, we were given a back-room private table with menus specially printed out for the bday girl. Incredibly thoughtful and very surprising. To top it off, the owner/manager came back twice to check on us and thank us for coming which was very very kind of him.
In terms of food, I thought it was decent (nothing foodgasmic) but it had the potential to be better if the server didn't spend 2 hours of my time hyping the dish to oblivion. The eggplant torte I ordered was basically a 3-layer eggplant Parmesan with a side of 4 small butternut squash stuffed raviolis. Pretty tasty sounding, right? Well, according to our server, it was their most spectacular dish on the menu, big enough to feed a family of 20 and made up for 20 layers of eggplant excreted from Zeus himself accompanied with gold raviolis that could have only come from Jesus himself. Don't get me wrong, my favorite meal (probably on earth) is pumpkin-filled ravioli, but not when it comes barely luke-warm and served with a side of ego and annoyances.
The prices are steep but pretty well expected for a fancy schmancy place in Old town with low lighting and italian-jersey servers. The cocktails were ok (a little watery in my opinion) and the wine selection was pretty satisfactory. The bday experience was amazing for the bday girl, which at the end of the day, is all that matters. Right? Right.
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