If I was rating food alone, this would merit 4 stars. Service, however, would rate only 1 star…read more The setting was that of a bustling restaurant in an Italian neighborhood. The restaurant's menu (unlike some) had no English translation, though you can likely intuit the content of many dishes by some common, root language. My friend and I intended to split a pasta dish and had hoped to get an order of garlic bread. When we attempted to order that, the waiter seemed to shut down that option and implied that we would need to buy an additional dish to get garlic bread. So we ordered both a Margarita pizza and a multi-cheese sauce pasta (called the Formaggio), as well as some water and a single glass of wine. The food came very promptly, but with only one 'share' plate. We got a small carafe of water and a single glass (not two glasses). The pasta came with two slices of bread, which was not garlic bread. That said, the bread was delicious, as was the pasta. The pizza was not the best I've had, but definitely decent. As suspected, the amount of food was more than the two of us needed, but I feel like the waiter was trying to dissuade us from sharing a single dish. Also, he had talked down to another waiter trying to speak to us in German, saying to use English; but when he spoke to us, he did not have a very good command of English himself. Once we finished eating, dishes were very abruptly cleared away, without asking if we wanted dessert or possibly a take out box for the remaining pizza (or if we wanted our bill). We didn't necessarily want to take it with us, but it felt odd to not hear an offer for that. So, if you want good food and don't care about high quality service, definitely check this place out. Or, you may just need to lower service quality expectations in exchange for good food.
