Enoteca Athena — Restaurant in Brunswick

This place came highly recommended to us and we got a gift card to go there. So I booked a reservation for our anniversary. We were excited to go. When we arrived our table was set and ready for us. I always like it when restaurants do that, and I'm sure it makes it easier for the wait staff as well. We had looked at the menu ahead of time and there were a few items we wanted to try. We started with the Arancini and the Figs. The Arancini were out of this world. The rice was perfectly cooked, and cheese came oozing out. There were also chucks of steak in the balls which sent these to a new level. The Figs (I forget the name) were just as good as the Arancini. They came with crispy prosciutto. The apps were absolutely fantastic. We had really high hopes for the entrees. For the entree round my wife had the Chicken Parm. She said if it's boneless chicken she's in. She said it was good. As she was eating it she said it started to get a little mushy, between the sauce and chopped pasta. It needed a little seasoning. I had sausage with little pasta caps, and I added chicken to it. Mine was good as well. It needed some salt and pepper, but it was good. The chicken was well cooked, not over and not dried out. The sauce was very light which balanced the meal because with a heavy sauce and pasta it can get filling, this one was not. The entrees overall were good. So far the appetizer round is the clear winner. Then we had dessert. We were between two so we asked our server and she told us they are known for their olive oil cake. Yup and olive oil cake. This was outstanding. The cake was light and moist. There was a little bit of olive oil drizzled around the plate and this sent the cake to a very different place. We liked this so much we took two orders to go so we could share it. Overall this place was good. The service was fantastic, the food was really good and the atmosphere was comfy and quiet. I would like to go back and try something different, but I don't think we're going...

My husband, our 1 year old son, and I went for an early dinner at Enoteca Athena this past Wednesday evening. We had been at the beach all day and our son had missed a nap. He is usually great at restaurants if we go early enough but I think the day’s activities had worn him out. He was playing it off well and acting like his usual self for the first 20 minutes or so. We got drinks and ordered our food. But then started the whining. Which soon escalated to all out tears. We attempted to placate him with a couple of toys we had brought, and even by putting his favorite show on one of our phones (on mute of course). It was no use. We were headed straight into wailing territory. We alerted our waitress (bummed I can’t remember her name, she was wonderful), and let her know we’d need everything to go. We had JUST received our appetizers. She was as gracious and understanding as could be as I whisked our screaming child outside so my husband could wait for the food and the bill. Hubby emerged from the restaurant a short while later (I think they even sped up the cooking of our order!) and let me know that someone - the waitress refused to tell him who - paid for our entire meal. I could be dead wrong, but something about it made me think it may have been the owner. Whoever it was, was probably just glad to get the screaming kid out of the joint! We took our food home, everything was ABSOLUTELY delicious, and we were oh so grateful to everyone at Enoteca Athena for treating us so well in a rather stressful and embarrassing situation. But I’m sure we’re not the first parents to go through this 🤣 We will most definitely be back!! And will get a babysitter...

I ordered Chicken Parm. I assumed (my fault) it came with pasta. NO when I asked the waitress why there was no pasta with the meal. i was told ours does not come with pasta. A few seconds later she returned and said there was pasta in the meal but it was chopped up. Why would you chop up pasta so no one could see it. Personally there was no pasta that was visible. No bread came with the meal, I saw no pasta. The chicken was dry and the breading on the chicken was burnt it was also unseasoned and bland . There was no salt or pepper on the table. We had to pour our own WARM tap water that was sitting on the table in a bottle decanter. My two granddaughters took me out for a belated mother's day meal. One of my granddaughters had the chicken parm. just as I did and the other who is a picky eater ordered pasta with melted butter and ate none of it (it was too mushy, she said.) I ate 1/3 of my meal and the grand daughter who also had the chicken parm. ate most of her meal. The experience was over $75 without tip which we left the poor girl as it was only her second day. NOT A GOOD EXPERIENCE...