Ca' Dario Santa Barbara

I highly recommend you bring ear plugs and prepare to have zero conversation with your dining companions if you choose to eat a Ca’ Dario. They have crammed so many tables in the two spaces, you literally have to push/pull them back and forth in order to squeeze around other diners and to get up/down from the table. That means there’s far too many people sitting in the space, and with the high ceilings and hard surfaces, everything is loud, loud, loud. Service was poor. Our server started out fine. Once our food was delivered she was never to be seen again. More water? Would have loved some. Fresh pepper for your salad? That would have been nice. She did get swamped and in the weeds very quickly, but still didn’t change the fact that other neighboring tables received service and we did not. The gluten free pasta was great. The romana salad was lovely. But none of that was worth the headache that came after the nonstop cacophony of noise for the duration of our meal.

The ribeye is excellent. My wife likes the Bolognese. She says the gluten-free pasta is very good.