No complaints at all about anything except ... wel...

No complaints at all about anything except ... well ... the food. It was even well prepared, but not good, enjoyable cuisine. Perhaps it's a laudible minimalist style to let the natural flavors show through, but it didn't even succeed there for me.

Some of the food was adequate (at this price point), but the low point for me was the wild boar "free form lasagna". My alternate menu description would be: "ground meat, pasta, broccoli rabe boiled in light stock, heavily salted, with ricotta salata". There was little flavor other than salt. I'm not a fan of wet boiled meat and veg, even with the novelty of wild boar. If you have fond memories of institutional food from childhood, perhaps you'd love it. Ok that's unfair - the veg was not overcooked. Well prepared, like I said.

Another good thing that the menu is quite original, with interesting ingredients. Sadly reading the menu raised my expectations and made the experience even more disappointing.

I wanted to like it, and I'd give it an enthusiastic 5 stars if I just ignored the actual experience of eating the food, which is what I came for.

My baseline of comparison at this price range would be EVOO (Cambridge), where I frequently take a mouthful and then just sit back to delight in the interplay of flavors. Bistro 5 is another on the list which comes up short - though so much shorter than I expected.