First time...lunch, about 10 days ago.  Really great food.  Everything is made from scratch, including pasta.  Flavors galore!\n\nWife had lasagna, but not what we expected.  They make it with bolanese meat sauce, the tomato sauce loaded with the rich, cream added meat.  Absolutely delicious.  We ate it all with great zeal and comment.\n\nI had the linguini with mussels in fradiablo sauce.  Outstanding in every respect.  About a dozen mussels, I did not actually count they, but it was lotsa dem.  The sauce was spicy, but pleasantly so.  Lips mildly burning and so with back of throat.  Flavorful and so good that I was using my spoon to take up the rest of the sauce and then wiped it clean with a piece of bread.  Would have licked it, but accomplished the same, as a true gentle man with \""bread for sopping.\""\n\nSide salad was a work of art with mixed greens, olives and very thinly sliced red onion.  Dressing was a citrus vinaigrette, so mild that I added some olive oil, but that is just me.  It truly was wonderful.\n\nService a bit slow, but being open only 10 weeks allowed me to excuse them.  \n\nIt is the best Italian we have had on Charlotte.  Will be going back for dinner.  Red and black decor was classy and comfortable.\n\nGreat date place.\n\nExcellent and a candidate with high potential for five stars.