| Address | 1737 Connecticut Ave., Washington, DC 20009 |
|---|---|
| Phone | (202) 667-1444 |
| Fax | (202) 667-2699 |
Who are those celebrities on the wall wearing '70s clothes? Some are labeled--Jack Nicholson, Adam Walsh--but some you would need a tour guide to tell you who these people were.
Very attentive service. Diverse patrons.
Old-fashioned cuisine.
Actually a decent red sauce Italian joint. Don't come looking for inventive but the pastas are decent. Service was also fairly good. However... The bread was awful, inexcusable at an Italian place. Stale and bland, much worse than anything you could go out and buy for $1.49/loaf at the grocery store. Too bad...
Not bad. Cozy, comfortable small nook of a place. Fried calamari appetizer was not so good. The calamari were overcooked and the "spicy" sauce was actually sweet and tasted a little bit like ketchup. The shrimp scampi appetizer was quite yummy. I mopped up all the garlic butter with bread. Veal tenderloin was good and juicy but a touch bland. My gnocchi was too big and far too doughy, wasn't quite sure there was any potato in there at all. Fettucini carbonara was yummy but not really how I've had it at other places, it was just fettucini in a cream sauce as opposed to an egg sauce. Well it tasted good anyway. Not a terrible place, the food wasn't quite worth the amount of money we spent but I'll live.
If you're looking for a red-sauce joint with checkered tablecloths and awful service that boasts marginal food -- at best -- while charging prices more suited to a grown-up Italian restaurant, this is the place for you. Lots of mediocre pasta swimming in watery, sugary marinara. Horrible portion control -- one entree is fit for Kobayashi, king of competative eating, while the other would leave Kate Moss hungry. Inattentive and rude service. This place has it all.
Honestly, if you're looking for a cheap, unambitious but decent red-sauce place, you can do a lot better. Try Dupont Italian Kitchen, for starters. It's not anything special, but it knows it, charges accordingly, and provides decent eats with pleasant service.
I debated rating this place for fear of exposing it! This is my best kept secret. The food is fantastic every time. The service is very proffesional; the ambiance is very intimate. They have an upstairs and downstairs.
A bottle of a mid grade white, an appetizer and 2 entrees was 80.00; Well worth it.
The place was packed, the service was horrible. I asked for more wine and the guy never came back. My girlfriend never got her water refilled. We left before desert because we didn't want to give them any more money (though it's not like they wanted it, being that they never brought me more wine). The food wasn't bad, but $14 or so for eggplant parm? Come on...
