Acquafarina will likely alienate as many people as it will charm, but it is an experience you won’t forget
); bar seating available for walk-ins; winterized patio; no delivery; dress code; no cell phones or cameras.The truth is, I can’t tell you much about the tasting menu I enjoyed on my first visit to Acquafarina, a swanky new Sicilian restaurant that will likely alienate as many people as it will charm.
Why? For the same blissful reason my notes are a muddled mess – Acquafarina has courageously prohibited the use of cell phones and cameras in its dining room. The main room, intricately fashioned from wood, copper and seafoam-green tile inside the soaring glass pavilion of the former BMO bank on West Georgia Street, is warmly grandiose.I was frankly stunned by the calibre of recognizable floor talent and couldn’t immediately tell who the general manager was – because they’ve almost all been managers in top restaurants.
Acquafarina was originally conceived as Water & Flour, a much more casual pizza concept. But the pandemic made him realize that he had to pivot higher in the sit-down restaurant segment to hedge against the uncertainty of office workers returning to their cubicles. When other restaurant groups laid off their star front-of-house employees, Mr. Foz scooped them up and gave them salaried jobs.
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