Since then, admittedly my tastes have refined and changed (thank a 10-year stint in foodie mecca, Portland OR for that). I still looked forward to visiting this little cafe on my recent visit. Mostly things are the same. Still in a strip mall storefront with very little to entice passersby to come in, but still a pretty good choice for simple pastas, salads and pizza.
Our first order of salads, pizza and garlic bread sticks was good, basic food. Not amazing, certainly not memorable, but good enough for a go-to, close-by carry-out option.
Our second order was the ravioli (cheese and spinach), more breadsticks and salad. The antipasto salad was good and the homemade dressing pretty good (I can make better, but that's being picky). Breadsticks could use more flavor. These are your basic white bread, doughy sticks with pats of butter. Not bad, no great. The spinach ravioli was a surprise. It was light and very flavorful. The cheese ravioli was disappointing--heavy, not homemade and boring. You can get this stuff in the freezer section of most grocery stores. Blah.
Our next visit got experimental with ordering the salmon and sweet potato. An interesting duo, I agree and a true disaster. The salmon was nearly white, not a rich pink, horribly "fishy" in smell and taste and just plain awful. The potato was not cooked thoroughly, but did come with some brown sugar and cinnamon to top it. Also, Snappy's forgot to include my dinner salad, so all-in-all, a real mess.
Bottom line: Stick to the basics like pizza and salads and simple pasta. Skip anything more than that.
EDIT: Later, we went back for salad and they actually remembered they had shorted us a salad and had a note posted with our name! They made good!
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