text: My new favorite restaurant?\n\nBeautiful simple setting.  Busy, crowded, fast moving.  Great date night or special occasion restaurant.\n\nMy wife had the 4 course tasting menu for $50 (appetizer, small pasta plate, main course, desert), with the $20 wine pairings for each.  With the little surprise tastes that everyone may get, who knows, it turned into a 6 course meal.  Healthy portions, very tasty.  The wine was nicely matched and excellent value.\n\nI nibbled on her courses and just had the filet for $30.  Filet was very good (not spectacular, but if you want that you have to go to the best prime steakhouses), but what made the meal amazing was the mushroom risotto it sat over.  I love risotto, and it was the very best I've ever had.  I would go back and just order a big blowl/plate of that if I could! \n\nIt was a very special meal.  Excellent service.  \n\nWe had reservations and still had to wait 35 min for a table, because they were genuinely that busy.  But what was nice is that the manager just came over, without a word from us or even a look, and had the bartender make two of her best signature drinks on him.  What a nice touch!  How many managers of nice, busy restaurants would do that.  Make a terrific meal even better to be treated that way.\n\n$110 tab before tip... worth ever penny!