Great Italian!

Instead of waiting 45 min. for a table last Sat. night, my husband and I decided to eat at the bar. Our waiter was enjoyable, and the bar is very nicely decorated. The olives and the bread sticks they provided were very good. However, I have to report that our food was disappointing especially given the price paid. My husband ordered the roasted chicken. The presentation was very nice. However, the chicken tasted just so so and the potatoes were definitely instant! That seems unacceptable. My shrimp risotto had good flavor, but the shrimp were very small (salad size) and were scarce. Don't be fooled by the chic-New York-styled restaurant....the food needs to seriously be improved upon !!

We tried it twice even though the Post said the food was bland. It is. But worse, it is poorly prepared and barely edible.

The Olive Garden crowd might like this place but if you enjoy real Italian food, go to Ristorante Bonaroti in Vienna, VA. You compare the two and you'll see what I mean.

The bread is good. A bakery should be able to make bread.

The entrees are expensive and not worth the money. On our first visit we had to return our order three times until they gave us what we ordered. It was not worth the wait. On the second visit, they got it the first time but the item was ordinary.

The salads have way too much garlic to my taste and too much oil to my SO's taste.

The entrees are inedible. The Gnocchi was like snot and when my SO tried to explain to the waitress the problem with the dish she threw another menu at her and told her to order something else.

Several managers came over to give us the status of the replacement food but they never introduced themselves, didn't apologize and neither tried to find out the issue with the food.

20 minutes later a grilled chicken dish arrived but it was so dry she couldn't gag it down. We asked for the check.

As an appeasement, one of the managers brought over a complementary dessert which contained nuts. We had already notified the waitress several times she was allergic to nuts. Be careful. Their service could kill you.

My food was edible but not great on either visit. We will not return any time soon. I hope it improves or it will never survive.

I wanted to try something new for my birthday dinner and decided to try this restaurant out. Overall, we enjoyed our meal. The bar was very trendy looking (which I thought was very cool looking). They seated us towards the back of the restaurant, which was the non-smoking section.

The lighting in this place can make the menu a little hard to see at times, but it sets the "mood" as they say. The menu had some great choices. They run a monthly special where they pick an area of Italty and have dishes from those area. They also have their usual menu as well.

We had the following for dinner:
- Rustichella (Flatbread pizza offered as an appetizer, which was really good. Wasn't too greasy and the goat cheese tasted very fresh)
- Pizza Fradiavola (When the waiter tells you its going to be spicy pizza, believe him! It was good; again not really greasy, but it does have a kick to it)
- Capunti Alla Puttanesca (I wasn't a huge fan of this dish. It had a lot Mediterranean flavors that I just generally don't like and I thought it needed more sauce to it; however, one of the people I was with really enjoyed it.)
- Cappellacci Di Zucca (The butternut squash in this ravioli dish makes the dish very sweet and very filling. I really enjoyed this dish!)

And for dessert, we had the Tiramisù, which was excellent. You could really taste the espresso in it. And it's a dish that you would want to get to share; its way to much to eat by yourself.

There were a lot of things on the menu that I wished I could have also have tried, so we'll definitely be going back there.