My girlfriend and I recently went to Venice for a belated holiday dinner at 7:30 p.m. on a slow Sunday night. We were greeted by an empty host stand and proceeded to wait five minutes to be seated. It was the start of a trend. We also waited for water (20 minutes), another five minutes to be greeted by the server, and we waited an hour for our first course of the regional tasting menus. The only ""waiting"" our server did on our table was to replace the frosted water glass and prosecco glass with lipstick on them, to inform us 30 minutes after we had ordered it he had forgotton our wine order and then came back to tell us he was sold out of it, and finally to take away a wonderful half-glass of brunello with a fruit fly in it. As for the food, I have had worse Italian food in Denver, but not by much. The mozzarella was inconsistent and salty, the risotto with salsiccia was undercooked as was their anatra ravioligia or whatever they were calling it, which felt like the duck had been pureed. The gnocchi with cream, pears, and walnuts was the highlight with pears providing just the perfect amount of acidity and the walnuts' texture and bitter, earthy tones rounding the dish out nicely. After getting a great brunello I know and love, we endured the blase entrees and each took one bite of the disturbingly bad desserts before deciding there would be no after dinner drinks. Even after all the waiting, lipstick, fruit fly, and barely touched dessert our server never waivered in his apathy towards our completely unimpressed state we dined in and took with us. The manager did shake our hands on the way out... as he was apologizing after the valet left without informing them where he put our keys. We will never go back.
Pros: Decor and Extensive Wine List
Cons: Lots of Waiting and Poor Service
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