Gigi
Italian · South End · $
4.5(485)
Italian · South End, Boston, MA · $$
Short for “Serene Republic of Venice,” SRV is Boston’s first Venetian-style wine bar. Pasta made from house-milled flour, fresh risotto, and cicchetti (small bites) shine at the stylish yet casual South End locale, where well-heeled patrons sip on Italian wines and inspired cocktails. Andiamo.
“The food was wonderful. I loved the meatballs and stuffed peppers to start. We got a few of them. We loved that each of the dishes hit on multiple different flavors and textures - creamy, crunchy, toothsome, salty, acid, etc. The deserts were also welcome, we had the gelato. Loved that the appetizers and deserts were not overly priced - very welcoming to enjoy.”
“It started out really well. I loved the scallop crudo, the muscles, and the prawns with risotto. Then came the disappointments, the venison with polento, two thing I normally like a lot, were the biggest disappointed in flavor and texture. Jonah crab pasta was also not to my liking in flavor. Since we left most of disappointing dishes, we decided to get deserts, only to be disappointed again. I am still ranking 4 stars because the three things I liked were really good, and the service was excellent. No drinks. Cost 190 before the tip.”
“SRV is a tapas style restaurant. We had five dish, two of which were spectacular, one was pretty good and two were losers. Winners, Mussels, supurb very flavorful. This was the best dish we had. Prawn risotto. Excellent, nice and spicy. Middling Scallop crudo, pretty good. Plump fresh scallops. Losers, Vennison polenta, didn't love it Jonah crab. Didn't like it. We also had tiramisu and carrot cake for dessert, we don't recommend either I'm”
“We went there on Monday evening. We got seated immediately as we had reservations. Its a well decorated interior place with dim lighting. Staff is nice. Menu is limited but good variety. We had couple of appetizers, one salad and 2 main course. Food was good. Plating was wonderful. We had one drink and it was ok.”
“I was so disappointed by my experience at SRV. We did the chefs tasting me menu. The service seemed an extremely understaffed, very slow and the bar was very overwhelmed. The drinks were ok, not very well balanced. The menu consider of three small bites (bruschettas, one of which was salted cod and inedible), one was service on a ? Stale cracker. The mid size dishes was a bland ricotta with steamed vegetables and extremely bitter radicchio. The mussels were good. The truffle pasta had an extremely bitter medicinal filling so I could not eat that. The lamb sausage pasta was not bad. The semifreddo was fine (frozen cheesecake like cream? The blueberry sauce had no flavor). Will not be back.”
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