Ponte Vecchio Trattoria & Bar

04/09/09

This Restaurant is Excellent

by Linda2157 at Citysearch

My husband and I have gone to dine at this restaurant many times. I never write reviews but I noticed these two reviews and I can't believe it. These people must not know what good food is. This place prepares everything from the heart. The owner is a very pleasant man which he walks around making sure everything is perfect for everyone. I really don't understand these write ups. The last time I was their I had a pasta dish with Taylor Bay Scollops in the shell it was to die for. My husband got the braciola with potato gnocci and he loved it and said the sauce was excellent. He is a very fussy italian man when it comes to eating. This is a restaurant you have to try or your missing the boat.

• Pros: Excellent Food and Service
• Cons: None

01/10/09

We were asked to leave because we ordered salads!

by TarKnif1 at Citysearch

This evening at 7:30pm me and five of my girlfriends met at Ponte Vecchio for a nice "girl's night out" dinner. We all ordered a round of drinks and then the waitress took our orders. We all ordered a salad for $8.95 and some of us added chicken to it and some added an appetizer at $15 a piece. (The waitress seemed very put out by the fact that we were not ordering entrees. Has she never been out with her girlfriends? Women don't eat big meals in front of each other.) We also ordered another round of drinks.

The next thing we knew a young man approached our table and said they we weren't "allowed" to serve just salads in this part of the restaurant and that we had to order entrees. We all stared at him like he was crazy - no where on the menu did it say anything about ceratin areas of the restaurant requiring entree orders. We said "charge us for entrees then" He said he'd be back. He came back and said that the owner said we could have just salads but he was going to charge us an extra $5 a head for doing so. At this point, we were so angry, as there were at least four empty tables in the restaurant, that we said give us the bill for the dirnks we have had (the first round) and we are leaving. We paid $70 for those drinks and left. None of us could believe we had been treated this way. We were willing to give them our money and they would rather see a table go empty than to serve salads to 6 women. In this economy, I would think the $250-300 we would have spent on drinks, salads and desserts would have been better than the $70 they got. We drove 3 miles down Route 1 and had a wonderful dinner of salads, drinks and dessert at Off the Vine in Rowley - check it out!

• Pros: The food is very good.
• Cons: The service and "rules" are ridiculous

09/07/08

Stay away :: This plase used to be AWESOME :: Point of Blechio

by f1neD1ner at Citysearch

"Don't waste your money.

Service non existent (even thought there were tons of empty tables).

Food not as described My wife's meal was not as advertised on the menu.

The $28 Angus steak was pure fat and gristle.

We were just going to pay and leave. We did not complain. We did not confront them. They asked why we did not eat our meals.

As we were leaving the waitress asked what was wrong with my steak, I told her,

she said to her fellow waitress, "another one", implying that this has happened before.

Back at our table waiting for the bill, we were surrounded by the owner, his nephew or son, and the waitress, basically yelling at us that we were wrong.

No discount on the bill.

As we were leaving the son or nephew exited the restaurant after us shouting Italian expletives, and unique finger and arm gestures. I thought he was coming out to apologize. After the young mouthpiece was through, papa mouthpiece came out to further insult out intelligence with additional Italian colloquialisms.

The fact that they did this in front of what little customers they had, will surely further cull their herd of patronage.

All in all it was worth the $100 to now have the ultimate WTF restaurant story."

• Pros: Great glass of wine (it was $10 though)
• Cons: Rude waitress - Owner and his Son verbally assaulted us for not eating the bad food