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Service was great. Food was spectacular!

This place is right around the corner and should be FANTASTIC... but I've had food here that is so salty that it burned my lips. Also, lots of mediocre brunches with "all you can drink" mimosas that are rarely refilled. (Even when you beg the waiters.) But the lunch special is actually a good deal. We have found two consistently yummy things on the menu: the lasagna and the rotini with fennel and sausage. It's a good deal at $12 considering that you also get an appetizer and a coffee. Still, the brunches have been horrible. And even our go-to items sometimes are over-salted. I mean... you'd think that "Sette" would mean SALTY in Italian, not "seven".

There is a danger in trying new places. Sometimes they're really bad. We all have those neighborhood places we walk by day after day and year after year - Sette was one of those for us. So we decided to finally try it for brunch. The space is nice, and the service was good. The menu *looked* good, with plenty of tasty-sounding vegetarian choices, which I always appreciate. But it went downhill quickly. We ordered 2 apps and 2 mains off the prix fixe menu, intending to share. The dressing on the bagged "spring mix" salad was incredibly salty and the salad was wilted. The salad was piled with tasteless chopped large tomatoes and shaved carrots - it would have been a bad salad at a cheap diner, let alone someplace that purports itself to be a nice restaurant. Our other app was the ricotta fritters which were covered with so much powdered sugar that it managed to overwhelm even the dense, leaden, cloyingly sweet fritters that were inexplicably stuck to the plate with a big blob of honey. Sweet upon sweet upon sweet, with no real flavor. The fruit puree, which could have been a nice foil to the sweetness, had it been some sort of seasonal fruit sauce, like berries, was instead jarred applesauce. Our main courses fared no better. The portobello panini consisted of half a mushroom on a large supermarket hero roll along with some red peppers with a strange bitter taste and that seemed to come from a jar and some mozzarella cheese. There was no herbs, no sauce, no nothing to enliven the ingredients, which weren't high quality or abundant enough to stand on their own. There was more of the spring mix salad with the barely edible salty dressing on the side. The most successful (though by no means really good) dish was the baked eggs on polenta and ricotta with tomato sauce. The eggs were cooked correctly, and the polenta was fine and the blob of ricotta was smooth. They were both overwhelmed, however, by a very sweet tomato sauce that tasted like it came from a jar. It didn't provide a good counterpart to the blandness of all the other ingredients, but instead made it impossible to take more than a few bites. Between the two of us, we weren't able to clear one plate, despite the fact we were both very hungry when we arrived. At $18 a person, we felt ripped off, especially as we weren't drinking. I guess brunch at Sette is only worth it if you deaden your tastebuds with unlimited mimosas first. I won't be going back, even if you paid me.

I am consistently disappointed by Sette’s dinner, & this evening was appalled by how they sneakily overcharged us. We ordered wine, spinach & gorgonzola salad (best part of the meal unfortunately), prosciutto & arugula pizza (rather bland), grilled shrimp & calamari w/ chick peas & sweet peppers (calamari was very rubbery), duck entrée (ok), & lasagna (the pasta was so overcooked it was mushy & the sauce was strangely bitter). The food aside, it was what happened when the check came that made me write this review. We were given a gift certificate for our anniversary we decided to use. Now as with every gift certificate there is fine print (dinner only, must spend at least $35, & a 18% gratuity would be added based on the original total – we definitely spent that much & who doesn’t tip at least 18% - so of course those are reasonable terms). However, when the check came it was clear they had not taken off the gift certificate amount. Fine, a mistake, so we told them but they tried to pretend that I hadn’t given it to them! When our original waiter came over & after discussion finally verified that he did get one from us, they reluctantly reduced the bill. When we got the check back they had reduced the bill but had added over a 20% gratuity. When I questioned why it was so much they said that I should have read the fine print on the coupon because that was how much they charged. I tried to argue saying that I remembered what was on the gift certificate & it should only be 18% (normally I would have tipped 20% but at this point with the quality of the food & the way I was being treated they hadn’t earned it). They told me again that I should have read the fine print because they had already thrown away the certificate & I was wrong. Needless to say we paid the check and left. When I got home I confirmed from a receipt that I was in fact right about the gratuity & on principle I called back Sette to inform them that they had made a mistake. Not only were they not apologetic, but the woman on the phone told me "what’s the big deal it is only 2 percent!" Had I left 2% less on what I was supposed to pay they would have not let me leave! I know it is crazy but it is the principle of the matter & the fact that not only did they not apologize for being wrong but they were clearly pissed off that they had to give me a discount that they tried to get as much out of me as they could. Why give out gift certificates if you aren’t going to honor them?

This is a good neighborhood place with a relatively varied menu, especially in terms of appetizers (try the fried polenta or, if you are adventurous, the sardine bruschetta). Their pizzas are, for once, of reasonable size, so you don't have to spend half a day at the gym after eating one of them. Good prices on wine bottles.

Very basic dishes that were not even done well. Ordered the mozzarella appetizer, which was just a brick. Waitstaff was not very nice.

went with some friends, the food was bland and my supposed brick oven pizza ending up being unappetizing and soggy, it was sitting on a bed of water! very rude service and would highly recommend trying out the other restaurants around it.