Wow, this place is so weird. This place should be a restaurant (absolutely delicious fresh Italian…read morefood!!!) and just focus on that but they try (very badly!!!) to be a bar (terrible cocktails, loud music, etc.) and it all kind of just fails. Some points were AMAZING whereas others just ruined it.
Where to start? It's dimly lit, big comfy chairs and couches, and you can make large group reservations (-that's what led us here).
Happy hour is until 10, and you can grab a pint of Heineken for 4.50 (other beers are not on HH, 6.8 each for grim, Blanche, or picon), or cocktails for 5€. STAY AWAY FROM THE COCKTAILS AT ALL COSTS!!!! We ended up trying a gin fizz, margarita, and caipirinha and all were extremely extremely terrible, to the point that they were nearly undrinkable. (And I am by no means a cocktail snob! My standards are generally pretty low, but yikes!) The wines were also not so great, at least the ones my friends and I tested.
Judging by the drinks, I wasn't really feeling this place for food but you know how it is - a girl's gotta eat! I looked around and was like whoa - this stuff looks legit!!! The pizzas and pastas and antipasti others ordered were making my mouth water! As per what I read on the menu, all ingredients are freshly stocked from Italy. The cooks are Italian as well. Man oh man. None of that was a lie - I would definitely come back here again for the food. The antipasti platter we split was super legit, and the bread to accompany it was freshly cooked in the oven.
Speaking of the oven, at one point, smoke from the oven started wafting up from downstairs where the kitchen is and it got so bad that they had to open all the doors lol. But I'll let that slide.
This place was so odd tho. Every 20 minutes or so, the already blaring music (I mean literally you had to shout to hear the person right next to you) would be turned up. Turned up super super loud, to nightclub volume. Yet it was like 9pm and this was not a club - just ppl having dinner and drinks. As soon as the music went up, you had like 10 ppl simultaneously trying to grab the servers' attention, like turn it down! Geez. I left with a headache and my headache is still there this morning. Was it the music? Or the terrible drinks? (But I only had 2...)