Delicious food but too rich, I couldn’t make it through the dishes. I ordered the alfredo and rollati. It’s amazing for 3 bites then you want to vomit because it’s too heavy. Service was ok, no frills, waitress was not too friendly, kind of surprising for such a highly rated restaurant.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 2
Shawn C Grant
was looking forward for some fish I’m a big fish lover I love the smell, the mouth feel, even so much more the taste, and I absolutely hate having to pay money for someone to prepare food for you and they serve you garbage.
I ordered the pesce al forno and looking up the meaning of the dish(after having dinner at the establishment)giving it’s foreign language it translates fish metallic oven, and it tastes like it’s was soaked in tap water for days so the only flavor that’s left is tap water fish I have no idea how they prepared the fish all I can say is YAK!
I was so disappointed and a bit upset, but I’m not going to be the guy fighting over food. I couldn’t get my fish fix, the best I can do is write my grievances on their site and recommend no one eat there if they are willing to have you pay hundreds of dollars and serve you food that tastes like garbage.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 2
barbara dewey
That is quite the "welcome," telling potential customers that they have a certain amount of time to eat, after which they must st leave. No thanks. I'll eat elsewhere.
Service: 1
Brandon Marcus
Great food. Very popular so it’s tight but worth every bite.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Parm, Gnocchi Al Forno, Mimmo's Baked Meatballs
James Croci
The food was very good and well priced for the serving size. I do think the value & quality of the food is good for the North End.
The experience is much less enjoyable though. They do stress that reservations are good for 90 minutes only but the pressure & feeling of having to rush made dinner less enjoyable.
Within 4 minutes of being seated, we were asked if we were ready to order (QR code menus so we hadn't even taken our phones out yet). There's also a note on the menu to order all your food together so the chefs get 1 ticket per table (not unreasonable for a small restaurant) but putting pressure on someone to select a drink, app, and entree all within minutes after sitting down is a bit quick.
The service wasn't bad, but it didn't meet expectations for a normal restaurant. We were out of the door 65 minutes after being seated.
This is definitely a no-frills kind of restaurant experience and I don't think the long reservation wait is worth it when there are many other great restaurants in the area that will make you feel like you're welcome for dinner rather than you're a liability to finish eating within 90 minutes.
No complaints about the food aside from having to ask for more bread a couple times. The fried calamari appetizer was excellent and the gnocchi and shrimp scampi entrees were both great.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 3
Alexis Belmonte
Reservations are needed and you only have 1.5 hours to eat. The restaurant is very small so it toes the line between being cozy and cramped.
The carbonara was simultaneously very peppery but also bland.
The only saving grace was the portion size.
The Chicken Parm looked a lot better and would recommend that over the carbonara without even tasting it.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Chicken Parm
Heidy Rodriguez
I booked a reservation for this restaurant more than a month in advance because they are usually booked out for weeks. I did my research read so many reviews and was so excited to try this place out. Our experience was very underwhelming. Maybe we went on an off day but you would think that for Valentines Day they would be a bit better. What we got: Tuna arrabiata: 4/5 tuna was good, could have used a bit more seasoning but good overall Mussels fra diavolo: 2/5 mussels were cooked great, but the sauce was pretty bland it looked great but didn’t taste like much Sunday , the best thing about this were the meatballs they tasted good, everything else was very bland and the pasta tasted like cheap pasta Frutti di the seafood was okay, but again tasted like nothing very bland and the pasta was so mushy and just not good. We have been to almost all the Italian restaurants on the north end and can say this was probably one of our worst experiences as far as the food goes. Very overhyped and not worth the money, but like I said maybe it was just a bad day for them because they have a very high rating.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Jose Portillo
Very disappointed. We booked months in advance because this place is usually booked so the food must be good. Well it wasn’t. Super bland food just has no flavor. We’ve been to 90 percent of restaurants in the north end, this has to be the worst one. These reviews are lies or maybe we just came on a bad day? I don’t know either way everything was just bad we got two apps(Tuna arrabbiata, fra diavolo mussels)and Sunday macoroni, and frutti di mare) so they had chances to make something taste good. The Sicilian lemonade was good though. Other than that just super underwhelming. Go else where.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 2
Christian Martín
I'm going to be absolutely fair with what we had for lunch. 1. , really bad, no flavor, no salt, and really bad quality pasta. Would not recommend. 2. Pasta di Mari: Great flavor, would recommend but don't get your expectations high on the quality of the pasta. Big plate. Service: Was great, fast in a crowded place. Atmosphere: Good but way too crowded for my taste since the restaurant is really small.
Overall I'm giving this place a 3, go under your own risk, I would not recommend it but I'm not saying it is a bad place either.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 5
Chris Webb
just too small for me food was excellent food consistent with every other restaurant in the area
Food was good but atmosphere was rushed and not at all relaxed. They do not offer desserts or coffee etc - not enough revenue versus time at table. They want you gone after main course.
They added a “kitchen appreciation fee” to the bill which was spectacularly arrogant. Tourist trap - not a locals place.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 3
Yaromyr Plashenko
Good Italian restaurant with decent food. I was told that it’s an amazing place with exceptional food. Unfortunately it’s not even close, the food is good but far from exceptional.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
david we
The foods good. I just can’t understand the month long wait for a reservation other than the restaurant is tiny and only has 10 tables and a couple bar seats. We ordered the Muscles in white wine, butternut squash risotto, pistachio crusted cod, fruitti di mare, and the bolognese.
Everything tasted very good and the portions large enough to share. Just not worth the crazy wait times to get in.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bolognese
Aseil Turkistani
Amazing service and atmosphere, food was average which is really disappointing, price to food ratio isn’t worth it, would never visit again, olive oil tastes cheap and something you would get from walmart, bread not bad
Good vibes just the food was not it at least for the orders we got
Delicious food but too rich, I couldn’t make it through the dishes. I ordered the alfredo and rollati. It’s amazing for 3 bites then you want to vomit because it’s too heavy. Service was ok, no frills, waitress was not too friendly, kind of surprising for such a highly rated restaurant.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 2
was looking forward for some fish I’m a big fish lover I love the smell, the mouth feel, even so much more the taste, and I absolutely hate having to pay money for someone to prepare food for you and they serve you garbage.
I ordered the pesce al forno and looking up the meaning of the dish(after having dinner at the establishment)giving it’s foreign language it translates fish metallic oven, and it tastes like it’s was soaked in tap water for days so the only flavor that’s left is tap water fish I have no idea how they prepared the fish all I can say is YAK!
I was so disappointed and a bit upset, but I’m not going to be the guy fighting over food. I couldn’t get my fish fix, the best I can do is write my grievances on their site and recommend no one eat there if they are willing to have you pay hundreds of dollars and serve you food that tastes like garbage.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 2
That is quite the "welcome," telling potential customers that they have a certain amount of time to eat, after which they must st leave. No thanks. I'll eat elsewhere.
Service: 1
Great food. Very popular so it’s tight but worth every bite.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Parm, Gnocchi Al Forno, Mimmo's Baked Meatballs
The food was very good and well priced for the serving size. I do think the value & quality of the food is good for the North End.
The experience is much less enjoyable though. They do stress that reservations are good for 90 minutes only but the pressure & feeling of having to rush made dinner less enjoyable.
Within 4 minutes of being seated, we were asked if we were ready to order (QR code menus so we hadn't even taken our phones out yet). There's also a note on the menu to order all your food together so the chefs get 1 ticket per table (not unreasonable for a small restaurant) but putting pressure on someone to select a drink, app, and entree all within minutes after sitting down is a bit quick.
The service wasn't bad, but it didn't meet expectations for a normal restaurant. We were out of the door 65 minutes after being seated.
This is definitely a no-frills kind of restaurant experience and I don't think the long reservation wait is worth it when there are many other great restaurants in the area that will make you feel like you're welcome for dinner rather than you're a liability to finish eating within 90 minutes.
No complaints about the food aside from having to ask for more bread a couple times. The fried calamari appetizer was excellent and the gnocchi and shrimp scampi entrees were both great.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 3
Reservations are needed and you only have 1.5 hours to eat. The restaurant is very small so it toes the line between being cozy and cramped.
The carbonara was simultaneously very peppery but also bland.
The only saving grace was the portion size.
The Chicken Parm looked a lot better and would recommend that over the carbonara without even tasting it.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Chicken Parm
I booked a reservation for this restaurant more than a month in advance because they are usually booked out for weeks. I did my research read so many reviews and was so excited to try this place out. Our experience was very underwhelming. Maybe we went on an off day but you would think that for Valentines Day they would be a bit better.
What we got:
Tuna arrabiata: 4/5 tuna was good, could have used a bit more seasoning but good overall
Mussels fra diavolo: 2/5 mussels were cooked great, but the sauce was pretty bland it looked great but didn’t taste like much
Sunday , the best thing about this were the meatballs they tasted good, everything else was very bland and the pasta tasted like cheap pasta
Frutti di the seafood was okay, but again tasted like nothing very bland and the pasta was so mushy and just not good.
We have been to almost all the Italian restaurants on the north end and can say this was probably one of our worst experiences as far as the food goes.
Very overhyped and not worth the money, but like I said maybe it was just a bad day for them because they have a very high rating.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Very disappointed. We booked months in advance because this place is usually booked so the food must be good. Well it wasn’t. Super bland food just has no flavor. We’ve been to 90 percent of restaurants in the north end, this has to be the worst one. These reviews are lies or maybe we just came on a bad day? I don’t know either way everything was just bad we got two apps(Tuna arrabbiata, fra diavolo mussels)and Sunday macoroni, and frutti di mare) so they had chances to make something taste good. The Sicilian lemonade was good though. Other than that just super underwhelming. Go else where.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 2
I'm going to be absolutely fair with what we had for lunch.
1. , really bad, no flavor, no salt, and really bad quality pasta. Would not recommend.
2. Pasta di Mari: Great flavor, would recommend but don't get your expectations high on the quality of the pasta. Big plate.
Service: Was great, fast in a crowded place.
Atmosphere: Good but way too crowded for my taste since the restaurant is really small.
Overall I'm giving this place a 3, go under your own risk, I would not recommend it but I'm not saying it is a bad place either.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 5
just too small for me food was excellent food consistent with every other restaurant in the area
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 4
Restaurantji Recommends
Food was good but atmosphere was rushed and not at all relaxed. They do not offer desserts or coffee etc - not enough revenue versus time at table. They want you gone after main course.
They added a “kitchen appreciation fee” to the bill which was spectacularly arrogant. Tourist trap - not a locals place.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 3
Good Italian restaurant with decent food. I was told that it’s an amazing place with exceptional food. Unfortunately it’s not even close, the food is good but far from exceptional.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
The foods good. I just can’t understand the month long wait for a reservation other than the restaurant is tiny and only has 10 tables and a couple bar seats. We ordered the Muscles in white wine, butternut squash risotto, pistachio crusted cod, fruitti di mare, and the bolognese.
Everything tasted very good and the portions large enough to share. Just not worth the crazy wait times to get in.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bolognese
Amazing service and atmosphere, food was average which is really disappointing, price to food ratio isn’t worth it, would never visit again, olive oil tastes cheap and something you would get from walmart, bread not bad
Good vibes just the food was not it at least for the orders we got
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Baked 4 Mushroom Rigatoni
The Gorgonzola pene was delightful!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
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