Café Picobella Trattoria

Sunday, July 5th, 2015

Reviewed by Barry Montefiore

Took my daughter for a Saturday evening meal. The old-mansion feel was delightful, though echoing and noisy as expected. Someone ordered 22 take-out pizzas for a party and the kitchen mindlessly gave preference to this order to the exclusion of most others. As a result, we waited well over an hour for one pizza and one pasta, while the scurrying waitrons did nothing to update us on progress of our order. My daughter said her salmon pasta was delicious, but my anchovy-based pizza could have been dipped in the Dead Sea for the quantity of salt that encrusted it. I have been to this venue before and the food and service was better then; perhaps better planning on the part of the kitchen would have heightened our enjoyment this time.