Gravy - (3 / 5)
Odd experience from the second we walked in the door. The hostess greeted us with a very soft voice that was severely overpowered by the music. We had no idea what she was saying, but guessed by the body language that she had told us to hang on for a minute while she got a table ready. She walked back, had someone set the table, returned back to where we were standing, grabbed the menus and waiting for what felt like an awkward 5 minutes or so while we watched people fumbling to put bundled silverware on the table. It was humorous, but a tad awkward, nonetheless. Then she turned around and either said it would be another minute or follow me, but we had no clue what she was saying so we just waited until she started walking and followed.
After being seated, the waitress, who was great, greeted us. We ordered drinks + an appetizer. The appetizer arrived even though we hadn't put in our main entree order yet. The table was a two-seater so we had nowhere to put the menus other than in our laps. Again, a little odd. Thankfully, thee fried risotto cakes were tasty so we still had hope for the food at this point.
Halfway through the appetizer, the waitress came back to take our order. I ordered a full sized apricot salad and Todd ordered Bolognese + a side arugula salad. We were told that they'd usually bring out bread, but they had run out. About 15 minutes later, someone else brought me a very small looking peach salad. Hmm, peach salad was not on the menu, but I know my fruits and those weren't apricots! I couldn't taste them, however, because I didn't have any silverware. It had been cleared with the appetizer plates. About 10 minutes after that salad had been delivered, our waitress came back and immediately acknowledged the mistake. She gave us some options and I ended up keeping the small "apricot" aka peach salad. Not a big deal and certainly not her fault. Todd's salad finally arrived and it was literally just arugula with a few cheese shavings. Very plain, not bad, just nothing to rave about. Then his Bolognese arrived - decent, but again, nothing to crave. Meanwhile, we are seeing bread being delivered to random tables...recycled or ??
Overall, food was ok, just not a great experience. It was humorous and gave us something to talk about, but definitely didn't make the 'must go back' list.
Food - 3.5 - decent/good Italian food
Decor / Service - 4.5 - Beautiful space, waitress was wonderful
Kid-Friendliness - 2 - we didn't try and most likely won't
Summary - 3.5