This is our first message. All four of us have experience in the restaurant/bar world. We had reservations for 9 PM and were escorted upstairs to wait. There was an INSANELY loud, raucous group of women, it felt like a club. The owner flirted with the women as they took promiscuous pictures of themselves. We could not converse amongst ourselves. It smelled like mold. We were told we would be seated at our table within minutes. After about a half an hour, we were seated in an unbelievably small, hot, crowded, loud dining room. We ordered four types of bruschetta, we got three. The ravioli that was supposed to contain arugula showed no real trace. No one asked how our meal was, no one apologized for the previous wait. No one offered us water. Upon receiving our check, we asked if it might be altered due to our unpleasant experience, and the owner/waiter/host became irate and ultimately told us not to come back. We did not want to stiff our main waitress on the tip, payed in full, and left an 18% tip, which she decided to refuse out of loyalty to this amazingly horrible restaurant and man. He reminded us all of a used car salesman.
Pros: Location, BYO, good cannoli
Cons: Owner/Host/Waiter, inability to hold a reservation, cramped space.
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