text: For as much hype that I had heard about Emporio I was a little disappointed in my first visitnnProsn the food is excellent sauces tasty meatballs flavorful and moist sides surprising and deliciousnn atmosphere is trendy and inviting nn our server was friendly helpful and on her game reading some of the other reviews citing poor service today was much better than nnConsn i was disappointed by the size of the lunch entree i ordered the panini with meatballs it is literally half a sandwich cut on a diagonal the meatballs are bigger than a golf ball but not by much i think i was expecting Buca di Beppo size meatballs because it is a meatball restaurant or at least a whole sandwich the dish of sauce that accompanies the meatballs was delicious and there was enough to dip the sandwich in nn maybe I am too old but i felt that it was too dark in the booth that we were seated innn some of the waitstaff wore tshirts with the restaurant name on hem but many others just seemed to wear whatever they wanted I was not sure who was working there vs not nn though i liked the atmosphere it is very similar to tenpenny right around the cornernnim giving this three stars mostly due to the portion size of the panini being much smaller than I expected