Donato Enoteca
Jeff's three stars from March 2017 rank the plates for you: the pasta was good, the steak was mediocre, the check was high. The menu has since moved to shareable plates and nobody has rated the new one.
Why go
The one account on file is Jeff's, from March 2017, and it is not a rave: "Classic Italian food. The service was haphazard. The steak was mediocre. The pasta was good. The pricetag was high. Not bad, but not memorable - or cheap." Three stars.
What the restaurant is now is a different question. Its own page describes a simple yet creative menu of shareable tapas-style plates,
which is not the format he ate off, and there is a bar-area happy hour from four to half six most days.1 Nobody with a byline has reviewed the current version.
Order this / avoid
- Order: the pasta, which is the part he rated.
- Avoid: the steak, on his 2017 evidence.
What locals & experts say
- Jeff (first-hand), 3 stars, March 2017: "The service was haphazard. The steak was mediocre. The pasta was good. The pricetag was high."
- Press: no critic has reviewed the current menu.
Good to know
- Timing: lunch Tuesday to Thursday 11:30am to 2pm and Friday to Sunday 11:30am to 4pm; dinner from 5pm, to 9:30pm midweek, 10pm Friday and Saturday, 9pm Sunday. Closed Monday.1
- Booking: recommended.
- Getting there: Middlefield Road, downtown Redwood City.
Jeff's take (his words)
- His review (Jeff, first-hand, 3 stars, 3 March 2017): "Classic Italian food. The service was haphazard. The steak was mediocre. The pasta was good. The pricetag was high. Not bad, but not memorable - or cheap."
Verdict
listed — Jeff ate here in March 2017 and gave it three stars: good pasta, mediocre steak, haphazard service, a high check, and his summary was that it was not memorable or cheap. That is the only judgment on file and it is a lukewarm one, so the rung follows it. The room has since changed its format to shareable plates, which nobody has reviewed, and the entry stays here until somebody does.