LOVE THIS PLACE!! Best quality and tasting food we’ve had in Oahu so far! Highly recommend
The food came out a bit slower than we would have liked, but the gnocchi and drinks held us over until our food arrived, and boy lemme tell ya, it was well worth the wait! We were seated in the really pretty outdoor seating area, and I would say this is a great spot for romantic dinner dates.
In short, the food is flavorful but expensive. The service was slow with minimal attention from staff. Read on for more details..Our server persuaded us to order the eggplant mozzarella stick appetizer by reminding us that the pizzas in particular take a while to cook and we should anticipate a long wait. The appetizer had good textures & flavor, but for the price, we were expecting more than 4 mozzarella sticksThe shrimp linguine was creamy, with a nice lemony flavor & visually pleasing presentation. The portion size seemed small for the price.The mad garlic pizza was pretty good.. I would have liked the option to add some black pepper or red pepper flakes over top just to enhance the pizza. However, after our food arrived, our server did not return to our table for over 20 minutes, by then, the pizza was cold.This kind of characterized our experience- lack of attention from the servers, though they were friendly when explaining the menu options & did warn us that the entrees take time to prepare.
Took my Mom here for birthday lunch. The place has a good vibe with modern decor and comfy sofa seating. The staff was friendly, fast and helpful. The food is yummy. My Mom, sister, and niece were truly impressed and that says a lot. The mad garlic pizza is something you’ve got to try. We ordered the sangria, Kona kampachi, endive salad, shrimp linguine and the tiramisu. All excellent. The restroom was very clean. Had reservations but on a Friday at noon, it was empty, lucky us. Will go again.
Good food and service. Our server did an excellent job serving us.
Very delicious! The only thing is the olive oil cake! Sorry but not good! Every thing else great!
Pros- Food was really good and atmosphere is nice. Cons- 20 open tables but host looked at me like I had a third eye when I said I didn’t have a reservation. Refused to seat us outside although there were 4 open tables there as well. Limited menu size.
I was so impressed by this place! Everything I had was really good.Even though the lettuce was a little soggy, the Caesar salad was delicious! But the star appetizer was the Crispy Potato Guy (not sure how that got named.) The potatoes has such a nice texture and just enough sauce to add a little zing to it.We ordered the Truffle Pizza (it was the pizza of the week) and it was incredible. Such a unique mix of slightly sweet and savory. Highly recommend!Another favorite of mine is the Carbonara Pizza, but the Hot Honey was also really good.In addition to the Truffle Pizza, their MB Old Fashioned was phenomenal! It's honestly my favorite Old Fashioned of any I've tried.Also, my waitress, G, was fantastic!! She explained everything on the menu, gave suggestions, and checked up on me often.Will be back for sure! And often.
The worst food in the world everything is bland and they don't let you choose your meat to go with what sauce and noodles. The noodle were over cooked asked them what kind of spaghetti sauce it was they said new York Jersey style lol. Even if you were trying to do a play on not York style Italian you guys fail big time so we ate our appitzer cause that was the only decent food they had which was a seafood fritter. Waitress nice and tried to help us out but food was just terrible oh and manager on duty or restaurant manager is unfriendly he doesn't even stop when a customer is waving him down like hello your the higher up if the problem our waitress should actually be him because she has more respect from the customer. Salad dressing nasty tasted way over lemoned and anchovy yum but atleast take the skin off. This place is a never again for me. So discussing we had to pay for what we ordered and went to a better place to eat.
Mad Bene was excellent. I've never had authentic Italian but I think this may he the closest there is in Hawai'i. The flavors were amazing, the customer service was amazing. I will be dining there again very soon.