First impressions last – thats why I am definately planning to go back here for lunch and dinner in the near future. Lunching with the ladies last week I was able to sample the soup and salad option. Bread selection was varied- some mutligrain (my favorite!), ciabitta, french- with olive oil, parmaesan, and fresh ground pepper for dipping. The soup was a nice rich broth of old italian Tuscan Minestrone- highly recommended. Spinach salad was tossed in a sun dried tomato-bacon dressing. Topped with gorgonzola cheese, red onion and shredded hard-boiled egg (had never seen a shredded egg before… but it was ok). The salad was very flavorful although in the future I will opt for my dressing on the side- sorry Im a bit high maintenance with my food- as the toss seemed to be sitting a bit longer than I prefer – Service was friendly but a bit slow at first- we had to remind twice for waters and bread- this is forgiveable in the sense that we were a rather large group and it was the beginning of a bit of a rush at 1:30 pm. It would have been nice to have the waters and bread waiting for our group instead of asking since we did reserve with them. Ambience was very contemporary/modern- bright colors- easy music. Not so good was the vaulted ceiling made it into a very difficult to talk in our group unless they were immediately next to us- even across the table was a bit dicey with conversation due to the echo's.
Price spot on 4/5 ! Food very good- 4/5 stars! Service 3/5- average- friendly staff – could use some improvement on delivery and keeping glasses full once party has ordered.
Over all 4 stars out of 5- will need to go back a few more times!
http://www.biaggis.com/maplegrove.htm
to see their menu's, directions etc…
