I was craving garlicy, fresh, Italian style food so we came here. Unfortunately, this does not live up to my expectations... ESPECIALLY after just having been to Italy a few months ago.
The garlic bread is quite thin and oily, not at all crusty and substantial as it should be.
The caprese salad are large beef tomatoes instead of flavorful Romano tomatoes, with only a half-round of mozzarella, topped with a ton of olive oil and packaged basil (not FRESH, whole leaves, as it *should* be). The ratio of cheese to tomato and Basil as a result was waaay off - it should have had 1-1-1 ratio until the last bite.
The white ricotta was mostly flavorless with a slightly mysterious metallic taste. Not good. I was looking forward to biting into some nice, big slices of ravioli with ricotta oozing out, as I'd had so many times before elsewhere and instead I received bite-sized pre-packaged ravioli that appear to be boiled in plain water. The cheese inside was flavorless and chalky/dry; not at all what I expected for a ricotta filling. It should have been packed with flavor and bursting from the pasta. I picked the napoleon sauce because it's a classic, but this was not good. It could not mask or make up for the lackluster ravioli. Not nearly enough flavor. Could this be canned? I make far better than this at home.
I tried my FIL's agnolotti with hazelnut, spinach and ricotta white sauce, and it was just as flavorless.
Lastly, we received desserts which were also underwhelming. The tiramisu should have been light and fluffy; a dreamy experience. It was hard and was basically coffee-flavored ice cream. The "papaya cream" I expected to come out like ice cream thigh, and instead it came out like soup. Interesting... Very disappointing experience. I would've expected more for an Italian establishment that has been around for as long as this one has. read more