3 /5 Jacqueline Crosby: We really wanted to like this place. It was clean and our server was very friendly. The menu seemed to have several interesting options. Started with Artichokes Romano. They were tasty, but were deep fried but came (as mentioned in the menu) with a white wine sauce. Unfortunately the sauce made them kind of soggy. Would be better without the sauce or if you could just dip them in it. The calamari were fine. Not amazing but tasty enough and served with a good tomato sauce.
My problem was with the main dish. I ordered the diver scallops with risotto. The scallops were good. There were about 7 or 8 on the plate and a reasonable size, and not overcooked. The problem was the risotto. I appreciate an al dente risotto but this was very undercooked. To the point where the rice was actually crunchy and sitting in a puddle of watery liquid. It obviosuly was not cooked long enough for the rice to absorb the liquid. In addition, the menu mentioned pesto and I expected a small amount of pesto on the scallop or perhaps topping the risotto, but it came witha lot of watery pesto surrounding the risotto around half of the plate. I really wasnt sure what it was for, maybe dipping the scallop in? In the end, we ate the scallops and left the risotto as it was getting stuck in my teeth and was not pleasant to eat. When our server came to collect the plates and wasnt sure if I was done, I explained why I didnt eat most of the dish. She apologized but that was it. No offer of bringing something else (though it was too late for that really, and I wouldn’t have taken her up on it at that point). We expected that she would have spoken to the manager or chef and perhaps comped it or done something to make up for it. So our thoughts were either that she hadnt spoken to management about the quality of the dish or that she had but they didnt feel the need to do anything about it. Perhaps if she had checked with us earlier they could have brought something else, but at that point my husband was done and we were ready to leave. If I lived nearby I might try again and order something different but we live several hundred km away.