There's no fish entree on the pre-printed menu, and for good reason. His salmon Vesuvio is a generous slab in a garlic-olive oil sauce accented with rosemary potato wedges. If you're lucky, the chef will follow Italian tradition by offering his guests a digestivo, a sip of one of several liqueurs purported to aid digestion. Further success may prove Trattoria Giacomo's only downfall. If this place gets any busier, the earnest but stretched waitstaff may be hardpressed to handle the load.
Service is pleasant but at times confusing.
Descriptions of dishes bordered on the vague, and some small errors were made, though they were corrected quickly. But that's a quibble in light of overall efforts to accommodate. We saw a table of 10 set up for a birthday party. Another table held a Chicago-area resident with two guests from Santa Fe chowing down on a zuppa di pesce, a fish stew loaded with lobster and mussels. The dish, not on the menu, was prepared to order based on a telephoned request two days earlier.