We returned and eventually were given dessert on the house. Vanilla ice cream with strawberries and the same honey was very good and very different. A poached pear was overly soft, but offset with an excellent caramel sauce. The room combines a number of bistro trends to good effect. The wall art makes postmodern fun of the Mona Lisa, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Botticelli's Venus, and other greatest hits of the Italian Rennaissance.
Good food is good humored.
I've eaten well at LoConte's, a red-sauce house with generosity and real savor, but I did feel privileged to have been easily seated for fully modern and inventive food while others waited in line for more prosaic feasts. All rights reserved.