Officine Buona Forchetta

Came for a Friday evening dinner with some friends and honestly the food and drinks were nice (except Carbonara). It's just that they charged extra for every little thing. Husband got the Mule of the cocktail menu and friend got the Espresso Martini. Both brings were absolutely delicious! Neither of them were too strong (especially the espresso martini which I usually find quite strong). Another friend also got one of the wines and said it was nice. Got Focaccia for the table and it was lovely . Fresh and warm and good amount of Rosemary on top . Quite thin but good enough since it actually gave us that crispy edge and slightly chewy inside . Beet Salad was lovely! Absolutely appreciate how they had fresh greens and then the chopped up beet on top and some goat cheese and then the lentils. Most beet salads at restaurants don't focus on adding greens, but just a big bowl of beet so this was definitely nice. Lentils added a nice touch and even that balsamic pressing was delicious! We asked for grilled chicken on the side and the chicken was also cooked perfectly well! Nice seasoning with the crispy outside and the perfectly cooked inside. Carbonara pasta was a bit of a letdown. It wasn't proper yellow like how you would expect from a carbonara after the yolk is added on there. It looked more like a white sauce pasta. Even the flavor wasn't much like carbonara. Vesuvio pizza from the specials menu was also surprisingly good! It was Calabrian Chili, sausage, some cheese (looked like ricotta and pecorino) and black olives. We usually need to add some chili flakes or hot honey on our pizza to give it great, but this one was actually proper spicy! I was definitely not expecting that pizza to be that spicy! Definitely a good pizza though because that crust was perfectly cooked and not too much in comparison to the toppings and overall an enjoyable one. We were actually discussing about how we wanted garlic bread before actually asking for the focaccia and I don't know why but the server charged as $1 extra just to add garlic even though we didn't mention add garlic. We just asked for normal focaccia. I also asked for some extra hot honey on the side just to drizzle on some of the bread and pizza and they ended up charging $2 for a small 1½ oz container of Honey. Quite too much to be honest!