Personally, my meal was fine. A few issues, some in my benefit. Staff English was ok, but not great which is fine, I'm the foreigner. Somehow they had NO half bottles of wine or any full bottles of red wine other than a Shiraz, which I didn't want to pay for or drink alone much less with my Italian meal choices. Anyway, after much consternation, the house red was quite nice by the glass, and I would have been fine with that if offered it first. Then things went to heck. Trio of women speaking Spanish were told credit card machine was broken and they had no cash. Much screaming and yelling ensued. Apparently they waited two hours for pizza which pissed them off mightily. After 15 minutes of sitting 10 feet away from this display of vitriol, including a refusal to walk down the block to a cash machine, turns out one of them had the money. And then the whole thing was repeated by the next couple (who witnessed all this) when they had to go.
So in this chaos, I ended up with two orders (one free) of muscles and clams as my antipasto. Solid broth, very tasty. For dinner I had the escalops of veal in a mushroom sauce. Again, sauce was on point, veal was only ok. Skipped dessert and merited a hug when I had cash to pay my bill. I would give them another shot on a different night next time I'm in town if I stay in the neighborhood (check out the Queen Mary hotel nearby!) read more