Wine • Soup • Coffee • Italian
"The food is very good but the experience was lacking. For that kind of money, you don't expect kids to be climbing the banquette behind you and peering over your table. You don't expect to be sitting in a small room at the back of a cafe. And you do expect the service to be exceptional; maybe even a plate of biscotti at the end of the meal? A vegetable for the table? Some olives or parmesan cheese? Nothing! We spent $500 on dinner for four and the manager would not even let us split a glass of wine. I will never be going back there!"
"Went as a group of four for Restaurant Week dinner, which had a terrific and well-executed menu, however the noise level from two groups of tables was entirely too much. It made any possible conversation among us impossible apart from barking a groans and gesticulating a lot. Too bad. The food was very good I especially loved my polenta with sausage mushrooms main coarse but it was overall an unsatisfactory evening for all around. Wine pours were a bit stingy but otherwise we were well served."
Wine • Soup • Salad • Pasta
"Sant Ambroeus Soho has always been one of my favorites places in the city and I 've enjoyed visiting regularly over the years. Thats why it was my first option to go for lunch with a friend that I have not seeing for a very long time. But what a disappointment did I get yesterday. The new manager is there just to boost his ego and his attitude is 'it 's my way and I do not care you are the costumer . I had made a reservation for outdoors 3 weeks in advance and upon arrival the new hostess, who is not that much friendlier, escorted me to the 'wood cabanas/steam rooms ' that were fine during winter-pandemic situation but do not work in warmer Spring-Summer days; it was 80 degrees yesterday and I did not want to do that to my very fashionable woman friend. I asked to be seated under the awning area which was completely empty but I was told that those were for guests with reservations; exactly; like if I didn 't have a reservation. The only option offered were to be seated inside and I was left standing outside while I waited for my friend to decide what she wanted to do. I was totally ready to go somewhere else but after her arrival we decided to just get it over with and eat inside. Sant Ambroeus ' new management will be responsible for their business demise. We are in time that after a year of pandemic people have 0 tolerance for the BS and the mistreatment of patrons. The new manager needs to get with the program and overcome his insecurities because the times where patrons went out to be mistreated by the rude employees on the false pretense of being at a cool place are long gone. It is not about you.. it is about the costumer."
Coffee • Casual • Italian • Great Coffee
"Food was generally pretty good. I do have one issue. My wife wanted avocado toast and on top of the avocado toast comes hard boiled eggs hard-boiled egg is here sliced and there was a green tinge with a yellow yolk meets the egg white. This is generallyan indication of it just a little bit of over cooking and I have to do too much you get the sulfur smell. They should know howto cook hard boiled eggs. Everything else was fine oh my wife doesn't eat the eggs she gave them to me."
Cafe • Lunch • Coffee • Italian
"Mixed feelings with this coffee bar: the coffees have a very good quality but the service is not good for these reasons: -Officially they don't offer table service but you see they do it to some tables. Are some clients VIP or what? -Whenyou order the coffee and see you in a table, they still give the coffee to you in cardboard cups instead of proper cups. Theyshould ask clients what they prefer. -You pay more for big coffee size than for standard coffee size because they give you abigger cardboard cup if you take coffee away but if you ask for a proper cup to stay and you ask for a big coffee size, theystill give you the same size of cup as if you pay for a regular size.. -It's a nice place inside but it is very crowded andnoisy therefore lacking nice environment to take a coffee in peace."
