Lupo — Restaurant in Seattle

Rating 3.5 To start with 45 min wait for a 2 top sat at the front window, not a big deal we went to ruebens for a beer to wait but it seemed as though there was ample seating maybe some ressos cancelled no idea wasn't a deal breaker.

We got sat and ordered apps and cocktails and a glass of wine, we received our food before our drinks... Not sure if that's taboo but it felt wrong I don't think I've ever gotten food before drinks. The bobby black was tasty like a Manhattan with more depth it was enjoyable but not groundbreaking.

Food- we had the marinated olives and the burrata and marinated broccolini. The olives were tasty a lot of flavor was infused into the oil, a treat to snack on. The burrata and broccolini was delicate with a nice anchovy back to it was a nice way to bring the flavors together nicely, the sad part was there wasn't any salt or acid to accentuate the flavors present so it ate a little to flat for a dish that would have had me chasing the ingredients for more each bite.

Pizza- Amatriciana First off let me say the crust was heavenly soft but crunchy with a nice sourdough tang to it I would order a dry pizza with just crusts for dipping. The flavor of the pizza reminded me of pastas of old with the crunchy guanciale and bits of caramelized onion it was to die for. The size- puny what I would order if it was a personal pan pizza it barley filled us up. The goods - the amount of toppings and the thinnest of the inner base of pizza was what I like to call "stained glass" I could almost see through it it was so thin and soggy, I'm a fan of thinner pizza but this was paper thin and there's no way to crisp something like that without burning it and while the parts of the amatric I did get were great there was so very little toppings it was like eating a la Croix version of one of my favorite Italian flavors.

All in all I would give it a 3.5 definitely hipster spot, was nice to try but I would rather go to tutti bell for a nicer pizza for...

I have been here 5+ times in the last few months and this visit tonight was the most disappointing dine in experience I have had. The food here is impeccable. Some of the best pizza and pasta in Seattle. The service and treatment from some of the staff have been the worst I’ve experienced in recent memory. On more occasions than not when I have dined here, I often feel forgotten as our food comes after other tables who sat after us. Other tables are checked in with constantly to refill drinks or give updates on when the food is coming out. Tonight we sat over an hour without food and during that hour not one staff member checked in with us or refilled our drinks. Other tables came and went being served. With only 30 minutes before closing, I approached the hostess to ask when our 2 pizzas would be coming out. She kept asking where I was sitting even though we were only 1 of 2 parties left in a booth. She then proceeded to tell me they were having oven troubles that were affected by the weather including having to remake one persons pizza 3 times because it kept coming out with a hole in the middle. I expressed my disappointment and pointed out that other tables who ordered multiple alcoholic drinks were serviced quicker and more frequently than ours and this was an observation I had made on previous experiences here. I also expressed that we love the food but the service seems very different based on what drinks you order and who you are. Our pizzas arrived a minute after I spoke up and the pizzas were cold and seemed like no effort was made to make them. They lacked sauce, flavor, and finesse that this establishment usually excels at. We quickly ate a few slices and asked for boxes and the check. They did comp the entire meal but it felt insincere and just to save face. Really disappointed to have what was once great food ruined by service and lack of...

It is amazing what covid can do to one of your favorite pizzerias. I just spent $40 for two slices of bread and a small pizza and this certainly isn't the Wood-Fired pizza that I used to enjoy in 2019. While the sauce still has the Tang of freshness, the bread has the crust just isn't what it was. The toppings were at best minuscule and the entire pizza probably cost $2 in materials. I suspect the mediocre food and the exorbitant cost is the result of the clientele which is the worthless programmers and other soon-to-be displaced by AI middle management types that talk and very strange "how you doing bro". Sort of brogrammer speak. I got bumped into by a guy who had taken his date there and my goodness just the sense of like I don't know. It's very strange like in Los Angeles. People are vapid but it's entertaining here. People are vapid and it's incredibly boring. It's like all the boring people from Los Angeles move to Seattle and now they're making the food mediocre here. Anyway, that was incredibly heartbreaking. Gratuitously expensive and the clientele that we're at the restaurant were at best brutally offensive to the human genome.

There's a place over by stoneway. That's like a takeout Chicago style. That looks very interesting. I would suggest heading over there and sitting down at gasworks and having pizza in a much better setting.

It's just heartbreaking cuz lupo was a place that I loved dearly.

I think it was just the soggy crust. How do you make soggy Wood-Fired crust? They might say it's chewy but... it was soggy.

The complete collapse of the tech industry by AI cannot come soon enough... But unfortunately all of the good restaurants in Seattle will have...