Filippo's Ristorante

I'm bad with names so forgive me if I butcher this.. but we had dinner tonight here and it was amazing. Our server was Dan and we met and spoke briefly with co-owner, and wife of Filippo, Annette (I believe that was her name). All in all a great experience: great food, service, and crowd. Appetizer's, Chianti wine,  and hazelnut gelatto were definitely the highlights. Energetic but not overly loud so you can have an easy and pleasant conversation with your table without needing to yell to be heard. Food was delicious and not overly priced. Definitely the type of place you should eat at and not be in a super rush - not saying it's slow but just saying it's best for a relaxing, conversational, dinner where you'd like to spend some time. I would recommend to any of my friends looking for an interesting Italian dinner experience.

Little surprised this has 4.5 yelp stars, likely some groupthink taking place here...

Its good, just nothing to write home about. I had the Ravioli Neri which was pretty bland. The fiance had a three cheese rigatoni with smoked mozzarella which was very good, you could definitely tell the cheese was smoked.

The best part of the meal was the olive oil- some of the best around.

The service was a bit odd. We arrived at 7pm on Sunday night with reservations and stood by the door with no one in sight to seat us for nearly 5 minutes until I went to the bar. They told us the only table available was right in front of the door and we'd have to wait 10-15 minutes for a different one. We waited- it wasn't all that long.

We were then at our table for over an hour before the food arrived- a mix of slow service and slower food prep time.

All in all, I'd go back and give it another shot and try something besides the pasta.

Really hate to give a less-than-average ranking because everyone in the restaurant was very nice.  Maybe it was an off-night or just the dishes we ordered - risotto and veal, they were so salty they were hard to chow down.  The flavor was good but just way over in the salt department.  Toward the end, I almost didn't chew, just swallowed with water.  Yeah, I was brought up to not leave anything on the plate.  One can always add more salt if one chooses but I don't know what one can do with dishes that are too salty.