Caffe Espresso Trattoria

The place tastes like it looks.\t\n\t\nPerhaps our expectations for ""fine dining"" were mistrusted from their website. ""fine diving"" is more like it.\t\n\t\nThe waitress was wonderful throughout it all, we gave her a good tip.\t\nWe ordered at 6:15pm having arrived at 6:05, and our entrees still had not come out at 7:30 so we asked for our check, thus far, and paid and left.\t\nThe garlic bread (homemade bread) was crispy, but not very garlicky (the butter was not fresh); the bruschetta (she pronounced it correctly!) was not great - the tomatoes were of poor texture and almost canned taste, and a not very creative recipe.\t\nThe ice water was not filtered well, worcester chlorine was still yelling at us..\t\n\t\nthe table bread (homemade) was very good, but the butter was on its last legs, and the table olive oil was stale (not quite rancid).\t\nWe were in a business meeting discussion situation, thus it was not appropriate to ask for replacements for the above, altho we would have had plenty of time.\t\n\t\n\t\nA better way to have handled our situation would have been to not have charged us for the three appetizers and/or given us a coupon for a return visit in hopes that things would be better.