Floriana

Duck risotto and salmon are both excellent here!

nice

Tuesday night. Tuna great. Bruschetta very garlicky but good.

great place

Great food and great service. Eye candy at the front door!

Friendly Neighborhood Staple

The warm welcome and attentive service is followed by very satisfying food & drink. A recently refreshed, scaled down menu has improved almost everything. The house made sangria is perfect for warmer weather and the crunchy calamari is always a winner. I'm fond of the pasta dishes as well as the perfectly cooked salmon. On rainy or colder days, sitting inside, in the cozy dining rooms, is almost like eating at home...with a few dozen friends.

Shock Treatment

During a recent trip to Washington, DC I managed to more than one bad restaurant. While the service was heroic in seating us outdoors, the food, well... that's why you go to a restaurant. I wanted to have a very traditional Spaghetti Bolognese, with meatballs, and I got something straight out of "Petrified Forest" - quintessential diner, or was that highschool cafeteria. Completely mediocre food. My dining companion had Penne & Sweet Sausage, which, it turns out, had precisely the same sauce as I had (Bolognese?) or generic "tomato sauce", and as well had neither visible or taste evidence of sweet sausage. Forgettable salads. Appalling as an Italian restaurant. We had left Trio after seeing their diner-style menu for this for "more authentic" Italian, and failed miserably. Avoid.