Over-rated

I went there with a friend for dinner last week.

Service was nondescript when I was their third customer in sight. It got worse when the waiting staff poured my beer all over the table cloth (which was nice) without so much as an apology. (I don't blame the poor Chinese waitress, the European head staff there would not crack a smile even if you gave her a platinum credit card.) When the marinara pizza (which we expected for to have shrimps, OK, we were actually expecting prawns and may be some cheap fish and cuttlefish/squid bits, we found no cheese and about three cloves of garlic accompanied by six miserable bits of anchovies with tomato paste), we just had to look at each other apologetically for choosing the sorry spot for dinner. The pizza base was good but the topping was more miserable than the Oliver Twist legend.

Looking at the salad selection, the first salad selection was described as "mixed vegetable". Thank you, I thought salad meant something else. We ordered the more expensive stuff which below my expectations came in a 6-inch bowl. The rockets were fresh and bitter and good, but nothing else in the salad worked for us, especially the size. Cheese? What cheese? Oh, there's five or six slivers there!

Do yourself a favour if you're thinking of having dinner there. Walk south to The Village 100 metres away, take the escalators to the third floor where they have real food and service.

Two of us had a snack there for 186 RMB. A wood-fired oven shouldn't give you license for bad service and over-priced food.