Address: | 108 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041, USA |
Phone: | +1 650-940-1717 |
Site: | vasoazzurro.com |
Rating: | 3.9 |
Working: | 11:30AM–2PM 11:30AM–2PM 11:30AM–2PM 11:30AM–2PM 11:30AM–2PM 5–10PM 5–9PM |
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Alyx Barranger
Terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE experience. I was thinking of using this restaurant for my rehearsal dinner, and I had a meeting set up with the manager. I showed up a little early to my meeting (5 min.) and I walked in only to have the servers telling me that they had no clue when the manager was going to be in. I excused this initial encounter as a potential miscommunication, and decided to take a walk in the area and come back at the time of the appointment. When I came back, the manager was still not there, and no one would give me any information. I sat there for 15 minutes until the chef finally noticed me and asked what I was there for and he called the manager who was not there. He proceeded to tell me that the manager would be there in 10 minutes (a.k.a. 25 minutes after our meeting time). I decided to wait in hopes that my experience would improve when the manager arrived, and 10 minutes later he still wasnt there.. After 45 minutes of waiting, the manager strolls in and completely ignores me. The chef points him in my direction and he shakes my hand and says "the traffic was bad, so what are we meeting about?" I was furious, but this was at the time the only place I had really looked into for my rehearsal dinner venue, so I continued with the conversation. I asked him about the food and what dishes he could have for us and his response was "Everyone loves our food. Only one person has ever rated our food below 5 stars. Look at our website." Um, buddy, you dont have 5 stars on yelp. Maybe you should stop pulling just the good reviews, and take a look at why people are unhappy with you. It became evident that this man was clearly not someone that I wanted anywhere near my special day. He was disrespectful, rude and unbelievably unreliable. I have never been so offended by an experience at a restaurant. I honestly couldnt care less how good or not good their food is. With staff that does not care even in the slightest about the people who come in to eat or who they want to host events for, I will never ever be caught dining here.
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Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy
My wife was in the mood for some good Italian food in the Sunnyvale-Mountain View area within a short distance from our workplaces. Vaso Azzurro fit the bill and carried good reviews in Yelp!. So here is my review of the place. Location: The Italian restaurant is one of the first in a line of great eats in Castro St. Seating: We had to wait a couple of minutes to get seated, not because it was full but because the maître d’ was busy talking to someone in Italian. We managed to get a seat outside. The restaurant seemed busy for a weekday lunch but they had enough seats outside (and inside if we wanted). Appetizers: Anticipating a heavy lunch, we skipped ordering any antipasti. We were offered bread with dipping oil. The bread was very tasty and had a flavor of its own and the dipping oil had herbs in it that made it a nice starting piece. Main Course: My wife ordered a Penne Alla Diavola and I ordered a Ravioli Con Spinaci Di Mascarpone. In non-Italian terms, the Penne dish came with bunch of veggies most notably chunks of eggplant. My spinach ravioli was filled with ricotta cheese and came in a marinara-mascarpone sauce. The penne was good but nothing special. The spinach ravioli was good but the marinara-mascarpone sauce was heavenly. It elevated the ravioli to new levels of exuberance. Dessert: We were already full but Yelp! reviewers had raved about the Tiramusu. The dessert came in pretty quick and was to die for. A hint of chocolate made it a tad bitter- but to good effect. Loved it. Summary: We enjoyed the warm afternoon out eating fun Italian food.
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A Private User
My husband and I wanted to go somewhere with our baby that seemed "family friendly". Vaso looked like such a place. As soon as we sat down, the waitress came over to take our drink order, and her face visibly changed when we only asked for water rather than alcohol. She came about 3 more times within the next 5 minutes expecting us to be ready with our order. I was still trying to feed the baby as quickly as possible, since he was not going to wait, and the waitress again seemed very irritated with us--even though she didnt have the patience to answer questions about the menu. There were only 4 other tables full at that time, so its not like they were pressed for space. We were ready to order a few minutes later, and she was nowhere to be found. When we finally tracked her down and gave our order, the food was ok--not really the quality I expected for the price. The baklava we had for dessert was soggy and not very tasty. What really made it a great experience was the owner, who came around to each of the tables and chatted with all the patrons and made us welcome. He burst into song at several of the tables--there were obviously some regulars that he knew. My husband commented after he paid and we left that the prices on the tab were different (more expensive) than shown on the menu. All in all, I would think twice about going again. The only reason I would is because of the owner and his way of making everyone feel welcome.
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Simona Bacon
I am from North Italy, and this cuisine has NOTHING to do with our flavors. When I entered the place it smelled, but we already committed to a colleague, and we stayed. Big mistake! I explained to the young inexperienced waitress that I could not have garlic, as it makes me sick, but there was garlic in the fried calamari (?) in the ravioli, in the linguini with verdure and even in the carbonara! No, no, no...this is NOT how do you prepare any of these dishes. Less than mediocre food, not to mention the poor ]service. They did not bring us any bread, until I asked for it, AFTER they served the antipasti, accompanied, of course, by a great amount of minced garlic in the oil.Seriously? She also took away the plate while my colleague was still eating, and placed the entree in front of him instead. Cherry on top, they loudly sang Happy Birthday to the customers, which is totally not an italian tradition, and I had "the luck" to experiencde 3 birthday tables in 30 minutes. As that it was not enough, after a while the host took a microphone and started to poorly sing. Nothing to do with my wonderful NORTH Italia! Did we want a dessert? Heck not, maybe they put garlic there too! Less than a star for sure. So embarrassed I took a co-worker visiting from Canada there, I had to apologize profusely.
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Vinicius Fortuna
I went there on January 25, 2008, and had a great time. FOOD: I started having the Bruschetta Milano, which was really good, and a Californian Merlot. They have a good selection of wines. Then I had the Pollo Saltimboca, which was awseome. (Chicken breast, prosciutto, mozzarella cheese sautéed in Madeira wine sauce with shallots and brown butter sauce.) Really really tasty. That was a lot of food, so Ive skipped the mashed potato and the vegetables to have all the chicken. In the end I had a Crème Brule, also very good. SERVICE: The service was great. The waiters and waitresses were very pleasant and attentive. The restaurant is managed by a family and they were always there interacting friendly with customers and making sure everything was perfect. One of them also sings!! And sings really well. He started singing happy birthday for a person with such a positive energy that everybody in the restaurant followed him. Then a group teased him to sing more and he sang two great songs, including "We are the champions". It was a lot of fun! And while I was waiting for my dessert, he sat at my table (I was alone) and we had a nice chat. Overall it was a really good experience. I do recommend the place for everyone, including couples, families or friend groups.