The actual restaurant is beautiful although a bit dark. At some point I started feeling tired just by the sheer darkness of the restaurant. Our waitress was originally pretty nice and suggested that we order at least 6 dishes (a pasta and a meat dish each). That seemed like a lot of food, so instead we ordered 2 small appetizers and then we each ordered a pasta dish. Then this was where the waitress lost us...she gave us this look like "Really, that's all you're getting?". She even said "I suggest you order more." In order to placate her I told her that we were saving room for dessert. That just kind of rubbed all of us the wrong way.
For starters, we got the home made ricotta and the beet salad. As the waitress walked away she said "I really think you should try the ricotta dish." We just looked at her like she was crazy and then she realized we had already ordered it. The ricotta almost looked like a scoop of ice cream. It was super smooth and served with a delicious jam and sweet graham-like crackers. While it was good, I liked the ricotta at Loconda Verde better..it was a bit thicker and I liked the herbs on it. The beet salad came out next and it was pretty fresh tasting. It was served with watercress and yogurt...I usually hate watercress but this was seasoned just right and I even enjoyed the watercress on it. Pasta wise, I ordered fettuccine that came with spring vegetables and sausage ($17). The pasta was amazing. So fresh tasting. I had just had boxed pasta for lunch and the taste difference was so obvious between the two. It was perfectly thin and long. The waitress made it sound like the pasta dishes would be pretty small but I thought the serving size was more than plenty. I was stuffed but wouldn't let myself let any of the pasta go to waste. As a side we had ordered the cauliflower ($8) which was roasted just right. For some reason they also gave us a complimentary order of broccoli rabe..it almost made us feel like yet again they thought we didn't order enough. Unfortunately, the rabe was overcooked and too salty tasting. I was so full by then but felt the need to order dessert. We ended up getting the chocolate cake with sea salt gelato ($10) mostly because we were intrigued by the sea salt gelato. And alas, the gelato did indeed taste just like sea salt. It had a lot of potential to be paired well with the cake but the cake was so rich and dense that between 3 girls, we probably had only 3-4 bites and couldn't finish.
Overall, the space is gorgeous and the pasta were fabulous. I still can't imagine ordering a pasta dish and a meat dish as the waitress had suggested. This would have been a solid 4 forks if it wasn't for the pushy waitress and disappointing cake. None of us ended up getting anything to drink so the total bill was a very reasonable $39/pp.
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