My recent visit to Notti Bianche is not an experience I will repeat due to poor service and mediocre-at-best food. We chose it only because it is so close to the Kennedy Center, where we would be going after our meal. No waiter came to the table for perhaps 10 minutes after our arrival. We each ordered an appetizer and entree. My appetizer (a salad) arrived, but no offer of fresh pepper and more importantly my date's soup didn't come at all until another 10 minutes later after I flagged down the Maitre D' because the waiter was paying no attention. The Maitre D' attempted to "explain" that there had been confusion because the waiter thought she wanted her appetizer and main course at the same time (!!!). It may be that the restaraunt was understaffed that night, but I doubt it. In any case,the waiter offered us (with a flourish) a glass of poor quality Primitivo at the end of the meal when we had consumed a nice Viette Barbera during the meal. The food was uniformly unremarkable, with no creativity, no ingredients other than the pedestrian, and little flavor.
