VinDivine

Campannina Restorante

1809 Union St

San Francisco , CA 

(415) 409.8001

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VdV Rating: 2

Food:   Italian

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Here is the general takeaway if you are not in the mood to wade through all my yammerig below: if Tony Soprano (before getting capped by Uncle Junior) would have had the experience here we recently had, somebody would be sleeping with the fishes, know what I mean?!

It’s fun being negative! We don’t do it often enough. Why am I being this way, you ask? Well, my friends, here’s why:

1. This place has scads of positive ratings on other, lesser;) review sites
2. We L-O-V-E Capri Italy as I believe we’ve mentioned about a gazillion times, and that’s where the owner is from
3. Mikele, the owner (a very nice guy) is the uncle of a semi-friend of ours in Capri and last but not least…
4. In our book, anything Italian has a decent chance of being
   kick-ass good. So what the hell happened between Capri and Cow Hollow?!

WOW. Want the run-down, the evidence, the goods? DO YA? Ok, here ya go:

1. Place was dead…a place smack-dab in the middle of Union Street, dead? First warning sign.
2. Our waiter, nice as pie of course, reminded us all of Count Dracula. Is Transylvania near Italy? We all covered our necks
3. They were…wait, I still can’t believe it…out of…oh god, I
   can barely say it…CHICKEN! Are you kidding me? CHICKEN?  Out of
   fresh, moist, tender Bufala Mozzarella or kid goat, maybe but…Chicken?
4. Once we got over our shock and ordered other stuff, they brought
   us the wrong dishes. Fixed it, no problem, smiles the whole time
5. The dude poured the new (second) bottle of wine in my existing
   1/2 full glass from the first – different – bottle. When he had just
   placed a new glass down. Maybe he was so busy staring at my neck he
   lost his concentration
6. Papardelle with Boar. Boar-ing.

That said, let’s leave on a positive note, whattaya say? Throw ‘em a bone.

1. The Bufala Raviolis were tasty. Nothing to write home about, but definitely tasty.
2. Being with our comedian friends like Shari & Dave, how bad could it be?
3. Everyone really was nice, especially Mikele.
4. So maybe we hit an off night, Monday and all. Hey VinDiviners out there – Go check it out yerselves and holla back!

PS. Sorry for the list overload.
Capannina Ristorante

1809 Union Street
San Francisco, CA
415.409.8001

italian food