I've lived in Italy for a few month and i tend to have high standards when it comes to Italian food. This place was kinda hit or miss for me, and it was expensive, thu not to bad. Huge place, really impressive size and the fact that we had to wait 10 minutes for a table on a Wednesday certainly speaks highly of the food. The waiter spent literally 5 minutes reciting the specials from memory. There must have been 40 different specials, and i'm not exaggerating! It was really impressive, if not somewhat frustrating to not have them listed in front of us. The meal started with good bread, a flat bread and a tomato spread, very tasty.
The food was decent to very good, thu I don't think anything was excellent. There were 5 people at the table and I got to try a bite of everyone's meal, one benefit of eating with family :) ...
The pizza was not hot and not impressive, neither the sauce, cheese or bread were that good. We had 2 ravioli dishes to start, both very small and good thu not great. One had apple, cheese and nuts, good flavors. The meat ravioli with a nut sauce was also good. Both were to small.
For the main dish i had the bronzini which was fishy. Everyone at the table who had a bite said it was to fishy. Kinda sad to get not so fresh fish at a place that serves 2-300 people a night, very unexpected. The flavors for the fish were ok, it was ginger and gran marnier, although i did not taste the ginger. We had the pork chop in a red wine sauce that was a big disappointment. Not much sauce, and it was not really that tasty. The pork itself was hardly seasoned at all.
One thing that was excellent was the hazelnut gelato, the best i've had since Italy! Really excellent stuff!
Overall i walked into this place with high expectations and was slightly disappointed. Not sure i will return.
