Banana R.
Yelp
Having been there two times now, I feel qualified to rate this restaurant. I am review now.
Location: Basically across the street from the Metro North station in Mamaroneck, so accessible by mass transit, which is always nice. Otherwise, it's street parking, which is fairly plentiful, or you can walk there, but I dunno where you're walking from, could be a long walk.
Physical nature of restaurant: very pleasant, lot of light blues and whites. Has a main dining room with bar up front, then a hallway with two bathrooms, then a back dining room.
Type of food: Italian, a little more creative/fancy than typical red sauce Westchester Italian food, but not stuffy. If you have boomer parents, you can take them there and I don't think you'd have any problems with them being like WHICH IS THE FOOD I NEED GARLIC KNOTS.
Quality of food: Quite high, a lot of locally sourced stuff, which is always nice.Having gone twice (2ce), and having tried 4 appetizers and 3 pastas, I think the food is quite good. Nice fresh mozzarella, excellently cooked pasta, some creative appetizers, some uncreative but tasty appetizers (come on, octopus, every restaurant on the planet makes it but it always slaps and gets rizzed up, like the teenyboppers say). The dessert is always tempting and there's usually some weird treats they offer on special, but I can't say that I've tried it. The only negative I'd say with the food is they can be a little liberal with the olive oil. Italian food already tastes good, you don't gotta give my tomatoes an olive oil bath like they are Roman emperors. Maybe Howard Schultz is a silent partner.
Quality of drink: I don't drink, so I can't say. Yes, I'm smug about not drinking, my liver is pristine. If they chained me up like Prometheus for the crime of stealing fire from the gods, and an eagle showed up everyday to eat my liver, that eagle would be eating good.
Staff: quite amenable and attentive without being overbearing. No notes.
Anyways, that's the review of the restaurant so you can go or not go.