I've heard the ranting and raving about this place over the years, but I'm always sceptical trying a new "Italian" place. Most times they aren't that "great", "amazing" "to die for" as everyone and their sister says it is. Leaving me disappointed and mad that I didn't just go to that place I know is actually amazing and great.
Anyways moving along....2 stars for this place. Why? Pretty simple.
The service. Horrible. Rude, slow not attentive at all. -1 star.
The venue. Small.. It's not that big, and with all the hype this place has, fills up quick at lunch/dinner. I however came here on a Wednesday @ 2 in the afternoon with SO and we waited for a table WHILE the place was dead empty. -1 star.
The food. Nothing special honestly. My pasta came out cold, calamari tasted like it was frozen, not fresh at all and to top it off my Caesar salad was wet, the dressing running off the leaves, soggy croutons WITH a hair in it. I don't ever send food back, just not me. So I didn't touch the salad. Horrendous. -1 star.
There is much better Italian down the road. I don't know how this place survives with so much GREAT competition around it.