Our group of four was excited to try Spiga, the hip new kid in town. We made a reservation for 4 for 7:30pm. We arrived at 5 'til. They asked if we wanted to \"wait just a moment\" while they made up a table in the \"private room\" or did we want to take the table next to the entrance? Seemed like a no-brainer. We chose the private room. A moment turned into two, turned into three. After about 15 minutes, we decided to get a drink at the bar while we waited. Of course, we had just gotten our drinks when the table became ready. The \"private\" room ended up being a large room with 4 or 5 tables off of the main room. Maybe they convert it into a private room when needed, but they shouldn't even call it a private room - it feels like a part of the restaurant. Regardless, the unexpected wait started us off on an awkward foot.\n\nThe ambiance is stellar. Old brick walls that curve at the ceiling, wooden beams, warm amber up-lighting. It felt like we were dining in an Italian wine cellar. Lovely. The bartender is excellent. I very much enjoyed the martini and my friend spoke highly of his old fashioned.\n\nFor appetizers, we ordered the calamari, octopus and the caprese 3-way . Like other reviewers have commented, it was good but not great. My friends noted that the octopus was cooked perfectly.\n\nFor dinner, we had chicken parm, seafood linguini, and short-rib ravioli. The chicken looked dry and was served on a plate separate from its accompanying pasta, which I thought odd. The seafood was cooked perfectly, but I felt the dish was heavy on the pasta and that the pasta was a little dry (needed more sauce?). The ravioli was good, but if you had asked us to try it blindfolded, we would never have guessed that it had meat in it. We asked the waitress about it, who explained that the meat was pureed and mixed with the cheese to make stuffing the ravioli easier. \n\nOverall, I think Spiga has a lot of potential. Our awkward start is probably just a growing pain - new restaurants are bound to have kinks in customer service. If the food had been at the next level, this would have gotten 4 stars hands down and maybe even a 5 because the ambiance is so great. I wish the owners the best of luck!
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