Sagra Restaurant 
Somerville MA 02144
Listed in: Italian
Neighborhood: Davis Square
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With two years experience in Italy in a Michelin starred restaurant and 2 years experience running the kitchen at a top Boston restaurant under Chef Marisa Iocco, Chef Robert DeSimone is now opening his own venture in the heart of Somerville. His goal is to provide very affordable and simply prepared Italian fare with an emphasis on grilled meats and properly prepared pastas and sauces. The concept is "road-side" Italian, not "red-sauce" Italian. This is not a typical "Italian" restaurant as found in the states.
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Ordinarily, I can forgive mediocre food, especially when the passable stuff is offset with real gems. The rice balls, for example, were delicious, as were the swordfish and perfectly steamed mussels in a spicy broth. If you avoided the bizarrely orange-flavored gnocchi, the overgingery seafood pasta, and the watery red sauce on the bland but serviceable chicken parm, you could put together a fine meal.
The service, however, was enough to knock Sagra off my list. We ordered a wine-tasting flight, which came in beautiful glass goblets. All three wines were turned, two enough to taste a little off, and one enough to make my father choke and gag. When we pointed this out and asked the waiter to open up new bottle, he didn't apologize at all. More damning, however, was that he didn't open up new bottles. He tried to foist another, cheaper wine on us, and offered us a taste of the other wine 'later in the night,' presumably to avoid cracking a fresh bottle. Annoyed, we asked to switch to white; again, he tried to swap wines on us, this time telling us that it he had a 'better' (it wasn't) bottle that was open. Through all this, he didn't apologize once.
Even a delicious nutella bread pudding and moist fruit tort for desert couldn't salvage the meal, especially when I couldn't focus on dessert as I desperately attempted to get the waiter's attention, as he forgot to bring sugar for my coffee. To be fair, it was the only thing he forgot through the whole meal; but as he ran back and forth past the table three times without pausing to glance at my raised hand, the last of my charity towards him ran out.
2 stars.
The lasagna was fantastic.
A welcomed addition to Davis Sq. The food was delicious, the wine by the glass was generous. I'll be going back.
Sagra has the best Italian food around!
I have been to Italy and believe the food at Sagra is by far the closest to real Italian cuisine and is by far the best value in Italian food anywhere in the Boston area!
the food was decent, but the restaurant called us after we left asking why we only left a 10% tip. we left over 15% in tip!!! unacceptable
the food was excellent
great food, great staff, great prices
If you want a great authentic Italian meal at a reasonable price in a comfortable atmosphere, this is the place.
