Luciano Loi

Thanks for your review. We welcome all feedback as we're new in town. Just a note re: parking. We have our own small lot underground. On Fri, Sat a valet service parks the cars (on Valentines too) and the rest of the week we "click" you in to the secure space. Thanks again Carol ps please introduce yourself next time. We'd like to meet all egulleters!

Not having participated in dine out in any form (restaurant owner or patron), I only have the comments of others to rely on. When a special occasion arose in Richmond ie Mothers Day or Valentines we simply did our best not to overbook. We booked about 5 tables every half hour and in two hours we were full, the kitchen was never overwhelmed and servers had time to spend with the patrons. I recognize that the profit margin is lower in Vancouver and stress levels run higher but in the long run your reputation is all you have.

Hi Ling By necessity our wine club was different from those operating in the East, whose primary function is to purchase wine in bulk for their members. Although you can often order by the case from the wine rep present, our functions operate as regional Italian wine dinners with food and wine pairing as well as a discussion on the wines and the wine region. Many times we had the actual wine maker from Italy present (with translator). Joining is very simple in that we need a email address that we can post our wine events to. Thanks for asking. Ciao Luciano ps to anyone who read the great city food article on us, Gianfranco and I are from Teulada, Sardinia; not Sicily.

adesso@shaw.caHello and thank you from all of us at Adesso Bistro for your interest in our new venture. We took possession of the former Saltimboca/pastabar/yewfirst on Jan 1 of this year and opened on Jan 15th. If Opening Soon had filmed it they would have had to do it in fast forward with a warning caption. Who are "we"? Luciano Loi and Carol Gadsby, owners and husband and wife; Gianfranco Loi, brother of Luciano and manager of Adesso; Travis Williams, chef and new found friend; Joseph Thomas, sous chef and former wrestler (Chef Pain). Luciano & Carol owned Papis Ristorante Italiano in Steveston for nine years and sold it Jan 2004 and took a year off. Gianfranco left Blue Water to come to Adesso and before that worked at Quattro on 4th for years. Travis, as many of you seen to know, is from Blue Water and Cin Cin but I'll let him tell his own story. Joseph is from Hamilton and what a character! So that's us. Our cuisine is modern Italian, and to us that means we would not be out of place as a bistro in any Italian city. We are open for dinnner, lunch (except Mon lunch) and weekend brunch. We have a cozy lounge with lots of shareable appies and truly great pizza. We will be starting up a wine club soon like the one we had at Papis (300 members when we left). We hope you'll drop by and meet us in person. And thanks to Andrew for starting a little buzz.