I went about a month ago with my girlfriend. The service was great and setting was cool.

I got the PENNE CAPPE SANTE, and it was exactly as advertised, pasta + scallops + tomato sauce + pesto. The combination of tomato sauce and pesto was unbelievably awful.

Usually pretty good. Their longevity speaks for itself. I usually hit Luigi’s on 19th between L & M when I’m hungry for Italian downtown.

Not a fan.
Not homemade pasta.

OK, I cannot resist but to egg some people on. Pasta Mia is the best, thats all there is to it. Why go anywhere else????

Wow – I worked here about 25 years ago as a waiter/bartender and met two of my enduring best friends (also waiters.) We used to call it the “Odious” cafe, or sometimes “The Hideon” but that was because of management (too much nose candy.) The food was actually good. (Well we ate it for free, but customers were happy.) It was a really new sort of restaurant and pretty cool back then. The menu looks basically the same and the prices are pretty good. I might go try it again someday.

And an interesting aside – as PoPville contemplates the world of service – the waitstaff from those days have gone on to include 3 successful business owners, 2 published novelists and a Chief of UNESCO.

I’ll bet you a dollar skeedattle has either 1) attended at least one Rob Thomas concert in his lifetime or 2) has “I need a vacation!” somewhere on his facebook page

Went here with my family because my mom is not a brave food person. I was encouraged when we sat down next to a large party speaking only Italian. However the food was pretty blah…similar to pasta I could have made at home but for much cheaper. It was a little disappointing, I don’t think I would go back.

i’ll forever stand by my love of salad and breadsticks, but i’ll offer up some responses: 1) never been to a rob thomas concert, but have been to a lifehouse concert and dave matthews concert, so i’m worse than you ever imagined. 2) no despite answer to 2, i’ll take the bahama-vention and gladly give pete his $1.

@skeedattle @JMW: Do we really need an Olive Garden in DC? Isn’t there a Buca di Beppo (better than OG imho) across the street from Odeon?

HORRIBLE!!! BELIEVE ME!

had the brunch. it was gross

i would take a date here back in the day (80′s) for a drink before we went somewhere else. in the summertime, it’s very nice.

skeedattle: Just be patient, because odds are your idea of “food” is going to be in greater supply in Dupont Circle before long, since too much of the place is beginning to resemble a Mall food court in upstate NY. While you pine for some place that will slop you down with a bucket of breadsticks, I will venture into full-on “snob accusation” turf by recalling a time when there was a discernible difference between urban villages like Dupont and the the expectable food troughs of suburban America. Thanks for bringing the voice of sameness to the urban core. Warning: our cardiac centers aren’t as good as the ones way out in NoVA.