Biagio Ristorante

Overall a fine experience. The wait staff was friendly and attentive, the food average and the price a bit high, but we all left satisfied, considering it is so hard to find a good dinning experience around MetroWest.  We will likely come back, the roof top deck looks like a fun place to have a few drinks.

Yikes. Service was fine, food was good, now let me tell you a bit about the owner.

He was playing host. I was 3 minutes late to my own birthday dinner, and he refused to seat my 78 year old grandmother. She asked why, and he said "what if the rest of your party doesn't show? Then I'll have sat 4 people at a 6 person table."

1) Yes, I know that's the rationale of highly sought-after city restaurants where you don't have a reservation (we made one a month ago), but let's face it, this is Waltham, and also you don't say that
2) There wasn't any seating area so my grandmother had to stand - this day happened to be the two year anniversary of my grandfather's death. She bravely tried to celebrate my birthday even though the date was so hard for her. Show some respect. They were together 60 years, and if you think he would've put up with this treatment of her, forgettaboutit.

We walked in and the owner saw a cake box in my mom's arms. "You can't have cake here! We don't allow outside food." After standing there for a minute, contemplating leaving and finding some place where there wasn't a storybook troll guarding the entrance, he finally said he would make an exception just this once for a plating fee of $3.50 per person. Fine, whatever. We're not cheap, unlike you. Also, nice rehearsed line for a one-time exception.

We sat down and it was so noisy we couldn't have a conversation across the table. I saw a large drink menu including a variation on a French 75, so, seeing that the restaurant thought of itself as a posh city restaurant, and assuming this was a common drink, I ordered one. The waitress came back with a martini glass filled with what tasted like maybe vodka and cointreau. To be clear, a French 75 is gin, sparkling wine with a lemon twist served in a champagne flute. It wasn't in the right glass, didn't have the same ingredients, tasted awful, and when I told the waitress it wasn't a French 75 she said "the bartender didn't know what it was so he looked it up." Where? A quick Google search gave me the ingredients I'm familiar with.

The food was good. The caprese salad was fresh. The pasta con vongole was plenty garlicky.

My cake was freakin' amazing and by far the best part of the meal. Take that.

Would I come back here ever again? Let my widow grandmother get harshly spoken to and disrespected, my mom yelled at for trying to make my birthday special, and my drink reinvented to some inexperienced bartender's whim? No thanks.

I went here for a belated Valentine's Day dinner with my fiancee in February. We had a reservation and arrived 5 minutes early, yet we still had to wait nearly 30 minutes to be seated. Our first table was in the middle and very wobbly. Turns out the tables on the middle section are all folding tables. Not very romantic to say the least! The host was miffed when we moved, but there were a few empty tables. We didn't want to wear our food. The ambience was poor. Very loud inside and the lights were too low (hard to read the menu). The entrees were doused in oil. The redeeming points were the appetizers and desserts, which were very delicious. I'm willing to try them when the weather gets warmer. I'd love to try their outdoor seating. I will not go back for their main dining room and will only get apps and dessert.