On Tuesday, July 31, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Andrew Trembley wrote: > It's clean, the second room (I'd hesitate to call it a "meeting room") > is large and could support over 40 people easily. We were not > overcrowded with around 30 people tonight.
I counted 24 people when we came in. I don't recall anyone coming in after us. > The acoustics aren't great, but they're much better than the Milpitas > Round Table. We did get a little noise from the first room, but it > wasn't bad. Whereas, the acting secretary had to ask for people to quiet down several times, so he could hear people speaking. They had all hard surfaces, so sound bounced around a lot. At times, it was difficult to hear some of the softer-spoken individuals. > Service was quick and friendly, and food came quickly. Agreed. We had the guy ready to take our order very quickly instead of struggling to get the attention of the waitress to get our order taken like we did at Hick'ry Pit. > There wasn't a large staff on duty, but they dealt much more > gracefully with our gang > than the Hick'ry Pit had been doing in the last year. Agreed. *Much* more gracefully without the excuses that we got at Hick'ry Pit. > Food was good. It's a pizza restaurant menu, but the selection is > pretty > varied. There are plenty of vegetarian options (but I expect no vegan > options). I had the baked lasagna and Kevin had the tortellini, and we > found them satisfactory. The minestrone was good too, a bit light on > the > chunky stuff but excellent flavor. We had a green salad (uninteresting) and the garden pizza. We were not particularly impressed by either. The pizza toppings were all from containers, and none of them were fresh. I liked the crust of the pizza, but I was disappointed with the toppings. We rated the pizza as mediocre but not bad. > Checks included an 18% service charge/gratuity/tip, but this was > clearly > marked and not sleazed-in. True, but it seemed rather high to some people. > Our check came out to about what we had been spending at the Hick'ry > Pit, maybe a little less. Our check was a little less than what we had spent at Hick'ry Pit. > At this point, Giovanni's goes on my "suitable for meetings" list. At this point, we would rate this as a second choice because of the hard surfaces making it hard to hear people. Very good service. Okay and tolerable food. Until later-- Carole _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
