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I cannot believe this place is getting good reviews. I went for lunch about a month ago and won't go back.
First, the back room is depressing - it looks like a chain straight out of TGI Friday's. The bathrooms are tiny, considering the room is so large.
I tried to order grilled sardines as an appetizer but they were out of that as well as the calamari. Nothing else appealed to me on the apps menu so I moved on to the pastas. I ordered ziti or something with Bolognese sauce. When it arrived it was a small portion and also contained half of a link of pork sausage. I asked the waiter why it wasn't mentioned on the menu that the dish contained pork. He didn't know. I just couldn't eat the dish with what looked like an already half-eaten pork sausage that was plopped on top of the pasta so I sent it back. I tried to order in its place eggplant parmigiana but the waiter warned me that it was a very small dish (as many of their dishes are small) but the prices are higher than appetizers even though they're still small.
For a restaurant that serve cicchetti like this one claims, I want to see the food spread out so I can see what I'm ordering. I also like to smell the aroma of food cooking in an Italian restaurant. This wasn't 'it. It seems better geared to the after-work wine and appetizer crowd in the FtatIron area.
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re: Beau711
I also agree that the place is undeserving of good reviews. I went there recently, made reservations for 5:30 pm & was seated at a tiny, cramped table in the bar section instead of the dining room, despite all the empty tables. There was no reason for that other than just the management doing a power trip thing. When I went home, there were 2 messages left in the afternoon, with one of them threatening to cancel the reservation unless I called back immediately! The guy who took the reservations did not say I needed to confirm again!
The food was OK, certainly does not compare to the real thing in Italy, but more importantly, was overshadowed by our experience there! I will never be back there nor will I recommend it to friends. There are too many other great restaurants here for people to put up with such a disrespectful management.
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Went last night, got an opentable reservation in the afternoon. It was fairly crowded, so I would get a reservation.
Food was overall very good, but I would not say it was wonderful. Staff was friendly and really tried to be helpful. I was with two women, both of whom wanted to go back. I would go back, but I won't say that I will be dying to do it. Overall, good to very good, not great.
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Bob Martinez
Oct 10, 2007 10:30 AM
Here's a recent thread.
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/423847And another - http://www.chowhound.com/topics/41238...
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I used opentable.com and got a reservation for this past friday night 24 hours in advanced. It is a huge place so you may get lucky as a walk in. There are two nicely sized bar areas as well. Have the pasta with the lemon and pistachio, though a little heavy, it was the best new thing I've eaten in recent memory. Chickpea fritters were good as well.
