Served meat when asked for veg options. Demanded 20% tip.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Aidan Van Zanten
Off the bat we were greeted by seemingly the owner or manager of the restaurant. Then, sat by one of the waitresses in an area with a handful of other tables in close proximity, strange considering the entirety of the other seats were open beneath our section. Then we were asked our drink orders by 2 or 3 different, but all somehow equally monotone individuals within a span of 5 minutes. Once we decided we placed our order with the man who seemingly was the owner/manager although we thought our waitress was the individual who sat us. Our food all came out correctly and it was evident the ingredients were fresh, but it was displayed much like a preschooler playing with their dinner. Although presentation was not there, food still tasted rather good. Upon receiving my check from seemingly the buss boy, I asked him where my tip would be going since so many individuals helped me tonight. His response was “If you want to tip him *points to owner/manager* I’ll go give it to him.”, this was not my intention as my plan was to only tip those working for them. Reading some other reviews I believe this restaurant has a serious ownership/management issue that is unfortunately getting in the way of their few bright spots (fresh food, location, ambiance). It is unbelievable to me that an owner would dip into his own employee’s tip jar, let alone when they’re high school aged. The restaurant is also littered with HELP WANTED signs, but from what it seems the best thing they could do for it is throw up a FOR SALE sign.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 2
Clare Levin
I feel bad writing a bad review as this is the first time I have ever done so. I went to this place in early 2023 and remembered it being so good, so when my friends and I were looking for a spot to catch up on Thanksgiving eve in Doylestown I thought this would be perfect. We were sat in a really awkward table next to the staircase. Our initial waiter was a nice young guy but he was soon replaced by an older gentleman who was pretty monotone. When we got bread rolls, I asked for butter, and he was just like "what, you don't like olive oil?" I didn't realize there was olive oil on the table but he could have pointed it out when dropping off the bread or just said yes when I asked for butter and said "and just so you know, you also have olive oil right here." It was awkward and I felt like I had to apologize for asking for butter. When he took our order he wrote nothing down, which I know more experienced servers feel like they can get away with but in this case he obviously needed to. He had to come back to double check what apps we asked for. For my main course, I asked for vegetarian lasagne and I may have annoyingly repeated that I wanted the vegetarian lasagne, but I am a vegetarian and as he wasn't writing anything down and just repeated back to me "lasagne" I wanted to make sure he got it right. He jokingly said "ok, the meat lasagne" and laughed, so I laughed back. Well lo and behold, the meat lasagne came out. When I asked to change it he said it would be 25 minutes, and asked if I wanted something else instead so I reluctantly ordered the rigatoni w/ cheese, but was afraid it would basically be mac n cheese so I asked if they could add mushrooms. It still took at least 25 minutes to come out so I might as well have waited for the veggie lasagne and it was basically mac n cheese with the measliest portion of barely cooked mushrooms on top. He never asked if we wanted parmesan cheese or anything either. The chicken on my friend's chicken pasta was inedible and my friend's swordfish was not good. We didn't want to be annoying so we didn't ask for anything comped but he never even offered to comp anything, despite the mistakes and the waiting for my meal. We were excited to finally leave and I felt the need to apologize to my friends for choosing this place, and honestly I probably won't be back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
kaitlyn k.
It’s such a cute little homey feeling place. The aesthetic of the restaurant is super comfortable however that’s about all I can say about it. With the service, the employees are super friendly but our food took a long while to come out and our orders were incorrect as well. We went on a Monday so maybe they were a tad bit understaffed but nonetheless our orders were incorrect and took a long time to come out. The pasta is definitely homemade and not from a box. I love that. But the taste is mediocre. It isn’t a place I would come back to but also not terrible. The food is simply okay. Not amazing, not bad, just alright. We ordered the chicken, the artichoke pasta, the beet pasta, the chocolate cake, and the tiramisu. I do not recommend the desserts. It’s super small and the chocolate cake (labeled as gluten free mousse) is just a dense bar of fudge. The tiramisu is also nothing special. It’s a cute place to sit and relax for a bit but at the end of the day, nothing special.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 2
Maria Sarmiento
super good!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pasta Special
Wanda Murtha
I usually only write positive reviews, but this time I am writing this one in hope that this place gets better. The service is fine, young friendly staff. The inside of this restaurant is beautiful and unique, and very clean. The outside atmosphere has so much potential, by cleaning it up, have the water fountain work or on, and pay attention to the details Unfortunately, the food is your major failure. My boyfriend and I ordered appetizers, and main courses and didn't enjoy one thing. Really, focus on the food, the taste and the presentation. It looks bad and it taste bad. This restaurant has so much potential to be one of the best spots in Doylestown. I really hope something is done.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
Ryan Driscoll
Friendly service and excellent food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Karen Lee
Start off, we didn't get to eat here, so I cannot judge the food. I am writing this because, they were stright out rude. It was Sunday afternoon and my daughter loves fresh pasta. And it has been her mission to try every place she encounters. We saw the sign on the window that said Pasta Made Fresh Everyday. We were excited to walk in, and it was fairly quiet in the indoor dining room, maybe 3 tables with patrons. We stood there and waited. When the maitre d finally looked at us, I said "table for 3 please". She replied, "We are all booked" and walked away. Nothing else.
Service: 1
cal15524
Need to remove stick from butt
Atmosphere: 3
Service: 1
Anna Austin
My parents have gone here since before they were married, and I now I go here with my family and on dates with my boyfriend. The reviews don’t reflect this place at all. The point is to take ur time and enjoy the environment. It’s not uncommon to wait a “long time” in Europe it’s the point of the culture, to have an experience. I’ve been eating here since I was a baby. I love everything! all of the staff is like family to me. Food is wonderful, service is great. ?
This is worse than the free food you get on an airplane when you fly coach.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 2
Amber Nowicki
Really cute atmosphere but the food is terrible.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 2
Tom
My wife and I went there early in the evening, a bit after 5:00 PM midweek. The atmosphere inside was very nice, a mix of open brick and wood and just a nice vibe. As we walked through I only counted 2 other tables with people at them. In other words it was empty. We were seated and then started waiting and waiting. First wait for the server to get to our table and tell us about specials. I said we needed a minute, big mistake we didn't get a return visit for quite a while.
Ordered food, again wait a really long time to get the appetizer which was supposed to be crostini. What we got was basically a small piece of bread with pizza toppings, I kid you not. And no crostini should not be mistaken for putting bread in your oven with pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese.
Speaking of bread they delivered 2 tiny rolls that were very much like the Amoroso club roles you buy in the supermarket, no butter, no olive oil with it, nothing, no opportunity to ask a server hey can we have some butter/olive oil they just weren't around.
Wait another long time to get our pasta. If you like your pasta really overcooked and loaded with salt this is your place to dine. The server never returned to the table to see if we needed anything. We got our own water refill because the bottle was left on a small counter top near the window behind us.
After finishing and waiting a long time I signaled to a server walking by to please get us our check. Again waiting so long, I got up and walked around to find someone else and ask again for the check (and I'm not really in a big hurry when dining out). Go back to the table and wait some more. We get the check and immediately hand our card over hoping to shave some time off this experience, nope wait another long time. I suspect there's only one person who is authorized to run the card? All told the food was mediocre and the service as very very slow on a night where there were only 3 other tables full by the time we walked out. I wanted to like this place but I'm not going back ever.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 1
Greg Scheck
Really enjoy the outdoor dining and the food is terrific. One of our favorites!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
pbastats
Party of 3 on a Friday night. We were seated outside. Ordered 2 appetizers and 3 entrees and drinks. The appetizers were ridiculously small portions and took way too long to arrive. Our meals took over an hour from the time we ordered. The manager came by our table to ask how everything was. When we told him we were waiting a long time for our meals he told us there were larger parties ahead of us. No apology or friendly words. Very arrogant. We sat down at 7:15. Food came out at 9:00. 2 of the three entrees were cold. Meals were ok but not great. Disappointing experience. This restaurant used to be excellent.
Served meat when asked for veg options. Demanded 20% tip.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Off the bat we were greeted by seemingly the owner or manager of the restaurant. Then, sat by one of the waitresses in an area with a handful of other tables in close proximity, strange considering the entirety of the other seats were open beneath our section. Then we were asked our drink orders by 2 or 3 different, but all somehow equally monotone individuals within a span of 5 minutes. Once we decided we placed our order with the man who seemingly was the owner/manager although we thought our waitress was the individual who sat us. Our food all came out correctly and it was evident the ingredients were fresh, but it was displayed much like a preschooler playing with their dinner. Although presentation was not there, food still tasted rather good. Upon receiving my check from seemingly the buss boy, I asked him where my tip would be going since so many individuals helped me tonight. His response was “If you want to tip him *points to owner/manager* I’ll go give it to him.”, this was not my intention as my plan was to only tip those working for them. Reading some other reviews I believe this restaurant has a serious ownership/management issue that is unfortunately getting in the way of their few bright spots (fresh food, location, ambiance). It is unbelievable to me that an owner would dip into his own employee’s tip jar, let alone when they’re high school aged. The restaurant is also littered with HELP WANTED signs, but from what it seems the best thing they could do for it is throw up a FOR SALE sign.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 2
I feel bad writing a bad review as this is the first time I have ever done so. I went to this place in early 2023 and remembered it being so good, so when my friends and I were looking for a spot to catch up on Thanksgiving eve in Doylestown I thought this would be perfect. We were sat in a really awkward table next to the staircase. Our initial waiter was a nice young guy but he was soon replaced by an older gentleman who was pretty monotone. When we got bread rolls, I asked for butter, and he was just like "what, you don't like olive oil?" I didn't realize there was olive oil on the table but he could have pointed it out when dropping off the bread or just said yes when I asked for butter and said "and just so you know, you also have olive oil right here." It was awkward and I felt like I had to apologize for asking for butter. When he took our order he wrote nothing down, which I know more experienced servers feel like they can get away with but in this case he obviously needed to. He had to come back to double check what apps we asked for. For my main course, I asked for vegetarian lasagne and I may have annoyingly repeated that I wanted the vegetarian lasagne, but I am a vegetarian and as he wasn't writing anything down and just repeated back to me "lasagne" I wanted to make sure he got it right. He jokingly said "ok, the meat lasagne" and laughed, so I laughed back. Well lo and behold, the meat lasagne came out. When I asked to change it he said it would be 25 minutes, and asked if I wanted something else instead so I reluctantly ordered the rigatoni w/ cheese, but was afraid it would basically be mac n cheese so I asked if they could add mushrooms. It still took at least 25 minutes to come out so I might as well have waited for the veggie lasagne and it was basically mac n cheese with the measliest portion of barely cooked mushrooms on top. He never asked if we wanted parmesan cheese or anything either. The chicken on my friend's chicken pasta was inedible and my friend's swordfish was not good. We didn't want to be annoying so we didn't ask for anything comped but he never even offered to comp anything, despite the mistakes and the waiting for my meal. We were excited to finally leave and I felt the need to apologize to my friends for choosing this place, and honestly I probably won't be back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
It’s such a cute little homey feeling place. The aesthetic of the restaurant is super comfortable however that’s about all I can say about it. With the service, the employees are super friendly but our food took a long while to come out and our orders were incorrect as well. We went on a Monday so maybe they were a tad bit understaffed but nonetheless our orders were incorrect and took a long time to come out. The pasta is definitely homemade and not from a box. I love that. But the taste is mediocre. It isn’t a place I would come back to but also not terrible. The food is simply okay. Not amazing, not bad, just alright. We ordered the chicken, the artichoke pasta, the beet pasta, the chocolate cake, and the tiramisu. I do not recommend the desserts. It’s super small and the chocolate cake (labeled as gluten free mousse) is just a dense bar of fudge. The tiramisu is also nothing special. It’s a cute place to sit and relax for a bit but at the end of the day, nothing special.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 2
super good!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pasta Special
I usually only write positive reviews, but this time I am writing this one in hope that this place gets better. The service is fine, young friendly staff. The inside of this restaurant is beautiful and unique, and very clean. The outside atmosphere has so much potential, by cleaning it up, have the water fountain work or on, and pay attention to the details Unfortunately, the food is your major failure. My boyfriend and I ordered appetizers, and main courses and didn't enjoy one thing. Really, focus on the food, the taste and the presentation. It looks bad and it taste bad. This restaurant has so much potential to be one of the best spots in Doylestown. I really hope something is done.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
Friendly service and excellent food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Start off, we didn't get to eat here, so I cannot judge the food. I am writing this because, they were stright out rude. It was Sunday afternoon and my daughter loves fresh pasta. And it has been her mission to try every place she encounters. We saw the sign on the window that said Pasta Made Fresh Everyday. We were excited to walk in, and it was fairly quiet in the indoor dining room, maybe 3 tables with patrons. We stood there and waited. When the maitre d finally looked at us, I said "table for 3 please".
She replied, "We are all booked" and walked away. Nothing else.
Service: 1
Need to remove stick from butt
Atmosphere: 3
Service: 1
My parents have gone here since before they were married, and I now I go here with my family and on dates with my boyfriend. The reviews don’t reflect this place at all. The point is to take ur time and enjoy the environment. It’s not uncommon to wait a
“long time” in Europe it’s the point of the culture, to have an experience. I’ve been eating here since I was a baby. I love everything! all of the staff is like family to me. Food is wonderful, service is great. ?
Restaurantji Recommends
This is worse than the free food you get on an airplane when you fly coach.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 2
Really cute atmosphere but the food is terrible.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 2
My wife and I went there early in the evening, a bit after 5:00 PM midweek. The atmosphere inside was very nice, a mix of open brick and wood and just a nice vibe. As we walked through I only counted 2 other tables with people at them. In other words it was empty. We were seated and then started waiting and waiting. First wait for the server to get to our table and tell us about specials. I said we needed a minute, big mistake we didn't get a return visit for quite a while.
Ordered food, again wait a really long time to get the appetizer which was supposed to be crostini. What we got was basically a small piece of bread with pizza toppings, I kid you not. And no crostini should not be mistaken for putting bread in your oven with pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese.
Speaking of bread they delivered 2 tiny rolls that were very much like the Amoroso club roles you buy in the supermarket, no butter, no olive oil with it, nothing, no opportunity to ask a server hey can we have some butter/olive oil they just weren't around.
Wait another long time to get our pasta. If you like your pasta really overcooked and loaded with salt this is your place to dine. The server never returned to the table to see if we needed anything. We got our own water refill because the bottle was left on a small counter top near the window behind us.
After finishing and waiting a long time I signaled to a server walking by to please get us our check. Again waiting so long, I got up and walked around to find someone else and ask again for the check (and I'm not really in a big hurry when dining out). Go back to the table and wait some more. We get the check and immediately hand our card over hoping to shave some time off this experience, nope wait another long time. I suspect there's only one person who is authorized to run the card? All told the food was mediocre and the service as very very slow on a night where there were only 3 other tables full by the time we walked out. I wanted to like this place but I'm not going back ever.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 1
Really enjoy the outdoor dining and the food is terrific. One of our favorites!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Party of 3 on a Friday night. We were seated outside. Ordered 2 appetizers and 3 entrees and drinks. The appetizers were ridiculously small portions and took way too long to arrive. Our meals took over an hour from the time we ordered. The manager came by our table to ask how everything was. When we told him we were waiting a long time for our meals he told us there were larger parties ahead of us. No apology or friendly words. Very arrogant. We sat down at 7:15. Food came out at 9:00. 2 of the three entrees were cold. Meals were ok but not great. Disappointing experience. This restaurant used to be excellent.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
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