The food here was not good at all. I started with the octopus and eggplant frites. The eggplant was probably the best thing I had. The octopus was cooked well but was a very small portion and had a very bland, not really tasting of anything sauce in dabs on the plate. The eggplant was fried beautifully with cotija cheese and honey on top. I then had the kale salad. It was ok, but there were lots of bad greens that were yellow and should have been picked through. Definitely not made to order, but if it is, the salad guy should be taught what to serve and what not to. There was some kind of creamy dressing on the side that again, was bland and I couldn't identify. Seems to be a theme here. Before I get to the entree, I've got to get to the service. I was with a friend and I explicitly told Joey, our server that we didn't want to rush. I said is that ok? I wish I could get his tone across because it was snippy and he clearly wanted to turn the table. The place was busy when we got there but within an hour there were empty tables everywhere. Despite my telling him several times not to rush us, he brought my salad out while I was still eating apps. Then before I finished any of it he came over and said the pasta would be out soon. I said I wish you had asked me when to fire it. There were still three plates of food in front of me. I'm not sure if the pasta was sitting under the heat lamp and then put back in water to rewarm but it was complete mush, inedible. There were maybe six clams and not enough sauce despite the pasta being so mushy. I showed Joey and he did have the chef remake it. The pasta was cooked better this time but I ordered spaghetti and clams and other than the six clams around the plate, there were no clams in the sauce at all. I order this dish everywhere, it's how I judge an Italian restaurant. This one was by far, the worst one I ever had. I tasted garlic which was good but no clams, no sauce on the pasta and I'm not sure fresh spaghetti goes with this dish. Again, I've never had it with fresh pasta and I've eaten it at the best Italian restaurants. Joey also picked a wine glass off the table with a little wine in it before I had finished it. My friend loved the Sunday sauce she ordered but the pasta was hardly cooked, way beyond al dente. I think this place is mainly a pizza place, everyone around us was ordering that. But if your menu says you make fresh pasta, whoever is in the kitchen should know how to cook it and definitely didn't. Joey finally cracked a smile after I told him I was in the business my whole life. But he should not have rushed us the whole meal and should have seen from the way we were eating and drinking that it would be a decent sized check, which it was. I'd been wanting to try this place for awhile, there were some great reviews. Maybe the pizza is the way to go, but the kitchen definitely needs some training on how to cook everything else and the servers need training on how to pace a meal and read your customers. I explicitly asked not to be rushed and we were the entire meal. My friend and I each said we'd never go back. I honestly don't get the hype.