Enzo's Bistro and Bar — Restaurant in Issaquah

This place has real potential. Great atmosphere. The food is real good, but just a little short on the portions some dishes were quite small. Though the prices kinda reflect that. The more expensive dishes were better sized in portion. This being said. The actual building is very nice. A nice view of the wood fire pizza oven and kitchen. Its well kept and very clean. The food was good, but did have a few issues. Such as under cooked vegetables on one dish I ordered. The carrots were very under cooked, almost raw. The half rotisserie chicken that came with two of the dishes I ordered were nice sized and well seasoned. The chicken was moist and flavorful. The spaghetti with meatballs was excellent. The pork meatballs were very nice and the red sauce was fresh and light. The lasagna was very good as well. It was made with the same marinara sauce as the spaghetti. The calamari was okay, pretty much the same calamari you'll get at any bar or restaurant. The only thing that saved it for me was the marinara. That sauce real is light and refreshing. The Brussel sprout appetizer started bad. The first half sprout was nearly raw, thankfully that was the only one like that. The rest of that dish was real good, and a recipe I've never had for Brussel sprouts. I would highly recommend it. The cannoli dessert ok, though extremely small. Now for why three stars..... I understand this is a new establishment, only been in operation for a month or so, so I'll be nice. The waiter was not very attentive (thoughvery nice and polite). The dishes weren't cleared from the table once. I even stacked them neatly at the end of the table for him to take but to avail. I asked my waiter to recommend a wine to pair with the mushroom chicken. He had to run off to ask someone himself then after returning had trouble remembering the two his source gave him. After taking the recommendation for a white wine, he took 10 minutes to return with it. I would usually not say something about this, but there was only one other couple in the restaurant. The wine was a good pair though. Like I said at the beginning of this review "this place is full of potential" they need to train the wait staff a bit more. Once the staff is brought up to the point of where they should be. As well as the few minor vegetable issues I mentioned are delt with.. This will be a 5 star restaurant. I'm looking forward to returning in a month or so to see how...

February 16, 2024 I am updating my last review in light of our most recent experience this past Friday. My prior review was four stars (see below). Our group of six arrived around 2pm and chose to sit in their very nice bar area. Right off our server informed us that she would not be able to split our check and that a 20% gratuity would be automatically included. When asked why, she said because it gets busy, along with other excuses. Funny thing was, the place was empty. It was still mostly empty when we left at 3:30. Looking back we should have just sat in the dinning room where it sounded like split checks were allowed, so we were told. Another odd thing was my wife ordered sparkling water, assuming it was on tap in the bar, but our server returned with a litre bottle of Perrier. Personally, I would have expected the server to ask if Perrier was ok before bringing a big open bottle to the table. She made sure to ask us if Pepsi was ok when others in our group ordered diet cokes! I would still give the food 5 stars, and the atmosphere is very nice. Lastly, when we received our check we saw that there was a tax on the already included tip! When asked, she said it was industry standard. Very strange. So we got taxed twice. I’m not sure I’ll be back for a while. Our whole group felt like our experience was tanked by all this.

Sept 22, 2023 Our experience was pretty good at Enzo’s. We arrived close to opening for lunch and sat out on their delightful patio. It was our first time eating here and I could tell it was popular with the locals. The patio filled up quickly and got a little noisy. We started with an appetizer—calamari, which was great. For lunch I had pasta and meatballs and my wife had the spinach raviolis. Both were very good! You can tell everything is made fresh daily. The only thing I would say about the food is portion size. I would have liked them to be slightly bigger. Our service was good too, a little slow, but we just took it as a European pace. They may have been a little under staffed. Prices at restaurants seems to high these days, unfortunately. It was an expensive lunch as far as lunch goes. My wife had wine, which did add to the total bill...

Me and my friend just had dinner at Enzo's today and the service was, let's say, wow, never had experience anything worse in a long long time. It was normal, we waited 20 mins to get seated. Then 10 mins later, our server showed up asked if we'd like water, ok, it's still understandable as our server told us he had this group of 20 people in the other room or something. We were understanding about that. Another 10-15 mins, he came back took our order. And he asked us if we'd like some bread, we said yes. He went away 30 mins never came back with anything. At this point, we already waited like an hour at our table with ONLY water. But we didn't make a fuss about it, we stopped another server asking about our food. And everything was served in the next 5 mins. At this point, it is still, well it was definitely not good service and I would even call it slack service. But it wouldn't make me write this long review. I never review like this lol. After we finished our meal, we politely asked for the check, our original server came back with the check and he asked us how long we have been sitting here at this restaurant today. I said plus the 20mins waiting to be seated, about two hours. I genuinely thought he was just gonna apologize for today's service. BUT, our server went: "Did you know in this two hours, 400 people died in Israel and 70% of them were children (or 70 of them, I can't remember the exact detail)", and he goes, "I know this is inappropriate but 400 people died, I just think you should know." WOW, man, we literally just went all the way from the airport and both of us had had a long day. Put aside the topic of Israel itself, it was NOT OK to just drop a bomb at the check out to your customers like this. We came to a restaurant for ambience, food and service, not for lectures. I do not know how the manager of this place could have let this happen. I'm not saying the food aren't great, if you're willing to end your day like this, go right ahead, or maybe bring ear...