Q: positive

A: Cento is great foods, excellent service. Granted, our waitress broke the cork of our wine, but the manager and sommelier both came to apologize and gave us free dessert. It was completely unnecessary. Having worked at italian restaurants myself, I completely understood what the poor girl was going through. Still, everyone was extremely friendly, even with midwestern standards. Recommendations were spot on, the sommelier commented on the wines we had, and the manager came out to comment on our dishes. The food was equally excellent. We had the beef tartare and calamari as appatizers, which were great (the calamari was a bit on the heavy side). The beef tartare was very fresh. We also had the pizza margherita - it was cooked in their stone oven which made the crust super crispy and the tomato sauce was excellent. AFterwards we had the black tagliatalle seafood pasta with sea urchin sauce. I've had worse seafood pasta's in Japan's Ginza district. I was super impressed. Finally, the lamb, dessert, and dessert wine were equally impressive. I will be recommending Cento to all of my friends. I'm a student now, so expensive restaurants aren't usually my thing, but I will definitely be coming back to Cento soon!

Q: positive

A: Hung out here while in Madison for work and caught a playoffs game on a slow Tuesday night. Great neighborhood bar feel, friendly bartender and a random a cappella group that at one point broke out in song. Decent beer selection and one of the better bacon cheese burgers I've had in a while. The meat was incredibly fresh, a true mid-rare and the bacon was spot-on.

Q: negative

A: here is the deal... this place is awesome. we went for the iheartradio official after party. it was closed to the public - they had open bar until 1am. I like the layout of this place a lot. It was easy to move around from place to place. The DJ was good if youre into EDM (I'm not but if you were you would love it.) They had some DJ even I have heard of. cirque du soleil dancers were amazing and the whole place is just really rad. ANYWAY, point of this is they LIED to us. Straight up lied. I am not pleased. Its not hard to get girls to go to a nightclub for free in Vegas. So WHY LIE? We were staying at Mandalay Bay anyway, so this was convenient. We talked to the promoter outside of Light Saturday afternoon and he told us the details. Told us that JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE was hosting this official iheartradio after party. Well, let me tell you JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE DID NOT SHOW UP. So, had they said rumor has it Justin Timberlake is going to be there FINE. I would have still gone. We would have still gone had nobody said anything about anyone famous. Listen, my friend has HOSTED at nightclubs before. This means he has to address the crowd to get paid. Justin Timberlake in no way hosted this event. Straight up lies. We stayed much later than I would have normally if I was not waiting for Justin Timberlake to magically appear. I had not given up hope yet. I spoke to many employees while inside and asked about it. Some people had no idea what I was talking about. For others, they told me it was a rumor. WELL ITS A LITTLE LATE NOW. I was told he was HOSTING. Where the eff is the host?!? I am still pissed about it. Lying gets you nowhere. ***Note: I am not your normal girl when it comes to anything nsync related. HUGE fan. you could have said anybody else was hosting and it wouldn't have mattered as much as saying JT was hosting. You lied to the wrong girl.

Q: negative

A:
HORRIBLE. Showed up, got stale bread. Took 45min to get glasses of water. The food was cold. Waitress spilt water on 2 of us. Ordered a Nata for desert. It was stale and old. Returned it. Then the waitress complained that she couldn't re sell it, squeezed it in our face arguing it was fresh. Clearly it wasn't, you could throw it at a wall and it would bounce back at you. After the horrible service, the waitress counted her tip in front of us and complained if she didn't receive a good amount. AVOID THIS RESTAURANT!!