Mercato

08/23/08

YUM

by mizpick

What a great addition to the Pearl. Good food, good service, casual environment, fast service, great gelato! I've tried the pizza, panini, and the carbonara so far and have been very pleased each time. The carbonara is not in a cream sauce and is probably one of the best I've ever had. They serve very good coffee (Illy) as well and the plastic seats are surprisingly comfy! The gelato is incredible (WOW on the strawberry-ginger), however in this gelato-happy city I'd really recommend these places have recycling of the cute little colorful plastic containers that they serve it in instead of letting people toss them in the garbage - my only "bummer" about the whole thing. Nice to have a non-stuffy place to go to lunch !

• Pros: great food, great service, good place for weekday lunches!
• Cons: environmentally unfriendly gelato containers

08/20/08

Nice place to meet up with friends

by mp02

WOW! This place reminds me of my trip to Europe. From the decor to the flavor of the food, and the coffee is good too. I'm a soup fanatic; I had the tomato and pear soup (yummy!) I work in the Pearl and I?m definitely stopping by for lunch here again.

08/13/08

Great pizzas and pastas, wonderful gelatos!

by lucescu

Mercato has the best gelato in town, perfect texture, creative flavors and freshest ingredients. I love their pizzas; the Gorgonzola with pancetta is my favorite and several of the entrees I?ve tried, were very good. I?m not big on pastas, but I loved their Carbonarra and my wife vouches for most of the other pastas, she tried them all, I think.

Because it?s so new they?re still working out the quirks in the service area, but I love the fact that you can drop in almost anytime and are able to get a table because many people are not aware of it. Great meals for decent prices!

• Pros: Great gelatos, pizzas and pastas
• Cons: Parking is kind of hard to find