Let me preface my review by saying that I think they were having an off night when my party of 3 went Valentine's Day weekend. My husband had previously dined at Aroma and had a much better experience the first time.
Anyways...here goes. We started by ordering a bottle of wine. They didn't have our first choice so the waitress brought out a comparable, more expensive bottle and offered it to us for the price of the original one we ordered, which was gracious of them. We began with the calamari posillipo -delicious and the best part of the meal.
Things started to fall apart with our entrees. Between the 3 of us, we had the beef filet tenderloin with blue cheese sauce, the veal saltimbocca, which was a special that day and the breaded halibut, also a special. The beef was cooked well but it was drenched with a totally over-salted blue cheese sauce. The halibut was ok, but over-breaded and nothing special - capers, lemon juice, etc. The veal was also over-breaded. I think we all enjoyed the side of homemade ricotta ravioli better than our main dishes.
The grand finale was cannoli. I LOVE cannoli and my ears perked up when the waitress mentioned it, but this dish was all over the place and wasn't the authentically simple pastry I was looking for. The filling was a mix of ricotta and chocolate cream with a vaguely familiar flavor of...garlic. Something somewhere along the line was tainted with garlic. I don't think this was an intentional addition -maybe just a cooking utensil or bowl was carrying the flavor. But all 3 of us detected it. The cannoli was chocolate-coated and then drizzled with strawberry sauce. It was way too complicated and kinda disappointing.
The service was great, though and the ambiance quite nice. I'd go back and give them another shot - just maybe order something different next time.