Things I love about this place:\r
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- you can almost always get a seat in the bar area at night and have a good meal\r
- funky orange chandeliers, posters, other neat decor. Hip and understated.\r
- polenta and beef tips, as well as their smoked salmon chowder = best comfort food in town\r
- decent wines, good dessert wines.\r
- seasonally changing menu with some local ingredients (! - a feat for Alaska) :)\r
- friendly and professional waiters. There were some drunk people in there on Sat. night and they offered them to leave in such a charmingly unobtrusive, yet firm way :) Love Orso.\r
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Things I am not that into:\r
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- wild mushroom ravioli leave something to be desired. Chewy, too salty, not very flavorful \r
- sometimes they are out of a particular wine, with no apologies or offer to substitute much. I think both times this happened, it was late at night, and the waitress was tired.\r
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All in all, not flawless but one of our favorite places. You actually forget it's winter outside when you are in there :D
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