Brace yourself for an inauthentic Italian experience. The menu rings true enough (the same menu you’ll now find in every other Italian restaurant), but the dishes are poorly prepared with low-quality ingredients. They might appear to be Italian food only if you were drunk and seeing them from a distance. That makes the sting of our last visit, where our 9pm reservation got us a table at 9:40pm (no apologies were offered) and there were three mix-ups in our order—all the more biting. The recipe for success here is the same as at Pizza Company: feed ‘em carbs (pasta or pizza dough), cheese and tomato sauce and they’ll never know the difference. For one, Bravo’s measly eight-inch pizzas are blatantly cooked in pans, resulting in bland, mushy dough (like the awful bread on the table), no edge and no crispiness. As for the toppings, get ready for cheap, rubbery cheese—and they sure pile it on. The same cheese “baked” with tasteless eggplants and canned tomato sauce once came to our table with hot and cold parts, leaving us to wonder if a microwave was involved. Want to sample a simple dish that lets the produce shine through? You’re asking for disaster. The carpaccio’s thin slices actually manage to be tough and their gray, oxidized color is even more worrying. The rocket salad on the side is just as tired—its olive oil flavorless and the “balsamic” vinegar more like a mix of white vinegar and caramel. The fritto misto has, to be fair, a light batter, and includes a couple tiny scallops. Unfortunately, it gets deep-fried for so long that the seafood loses its flavor. (It’s also served with tartar sauce—what is this, fish and chips?) Our only recommendation would be the osso bucco which is refreshingly decent. Throw in careless service, a horrid décor (the guy who painted the fake brick walls was clearly half-blind, as was the person who purchased the oil paintings hanging on them) and prices that don’t include service and government tax, and you’ve got yourself a completely losing proposition in a town with no shortage of good, affordable Italian joints. Corkage B300.