Bistecca

Hand an excellent first experience here! We came here for a date night and we're impressed at the detailed decor, delicious food and creative drinks! They were slightly slow on the service but it was quite a busy Saturday night. Their pasta was some of the best I've had, and may even rival Grist! Another excellent date spot in downtown, highly recommend!

This was one of the strangest dining experiences of my life. To start, we were here to celebrate my brother’s birthday, so we had reservations a couple weeks in advance. When we arrived, the hostess looked panicked and confused, then finally found us a table. We sat at that table nearly 20 minutes without even getting water. I walked to the server station to request a server, and a few minutes later that same hostess came to our table with water and asked if we were ready to order. When I asked if we would be getting a server, she said that she was our only option because they were understaffed. There were at least 6 other servers in the restaurant and we were the only table with the hostess as our server. She honestly ended up taking better care of us than I expected, but was clearly inexperienced and should not have been put in that position. We felt like management simply didn’t care about us or her as an employee frankly. She was super young and lacked professionalism with some noises she made, at one point even meowing. She often had a look of panic on her face and sprinted around the restaurant but at least she seemed to care. We also ordered two different types of Negronis which the advertised highly, and they were out of ingredients for one and the machine didn’t work for the other. On a positive note… the food was great. The apps, pastas, risottos, and steaks were all perfectly seasoned and cooked. It’s a shame the unorganized front of house kept this from being the experience it should have been.