Cristina's Restaurant

Have eaten here twice now and both times the food and service has been excellent.  Great Italian food.  Only drawback according to my wife (who liked her meal very much) was that there weren't a lot of "lighter" options.  My meal was fantastic and both my kids devoured their meals, too.

I thought the food was standard Italian, nothing that I have to have.... Pls a bit pricy for chicken parm, chicken piccata, wine, beer and salads to start. All in all good food though

We went to Cristina's for the first time during restaurant week. It was also Friday night so it may have been busier than usual but I was a little disappointed in the food quality. I got Buffalo wings, beer battered haddock, and desert nachos and my fiance got potato skins a bacon cheeseburger and the desert nachos.

The best part of the meal was by far the desert nachos. Tasted like fried dough and ate like nachos. Perfect blend of flavors and served warm.

Most of the other items were merely ok. The potato skins were just meh and I thought the potatoes tasted a bit funny. The bun on the cheeseburger had one of the hardest crusts I've even seen and made eating it difficult. The haddock and fries were probably worst of all. They were soggy and limp and seemed like they'd been dipped in water after being cooked. Very mediocre texture.

The service also left a lot to be desired. Our waitress had two or three tables in our area and it seemed like she would only check on one per trip to our corner. If I had asked for a refill and the table next to us had an appetizer coming out she'd bring out the app and not my drink. She would bring things to another table and not check on any of the other tables, leave, and come back a minute later and check on one of the tables. Pretty slow service that there were OBVIOUS fixes to.

The ambiance of the restaurant was great and seemed really intimate and inviting though. My fiance and I think we'll try it again some time because we think it may have been a bad night but initial impressions were underwhelming.