Mercato at Urban Market

why did Fabio’s location at Chase close down.

Recent visit was at 11:45 AM on a Thursday. The review is based on the actual dish that I’ve tried twice and service.
Food: Zero Star. Ordered a the gnocchi with pesto sauce, basil, Parmesan, & house dried tomatoes @ $ 7.29. Also got 0.14 ($ 1.05) worth of pesto chicken from the Salad Bar by the Oz @ $ 7.52. The gnocchi itself was overcooked, flavorless, with the consistency of paste. The pesto sauce was dry, salty, and needed more olive oil. The chicken from the salad bar was dry, cold, and lacked the pesto flavor. Why did I get chicken at the salad bar instead of at the pasta bar? Because they can’t add it in there due to the lack of a button at the register.
Service: 5 star service. The cook behind the counter was very informative of the ingredients that goes into the sauce. He explained all of the sauce options and why they cannot add chicken in their pasta.
Unfortunately, the food was flavorless on both visits. The staff is amazing, but I don’t think I will be making another visit back to the pasta station anytime soon.

I go the Urban Market pretty frequently and I haven’t had a desire to go back to Mercato since trying it in June. First, while pleasant, the service was pretty slow. The meatball sandwich was good. But the sauce on the duck pasta was just too heavy and I didn’t get a lot of flavor from the sausage.

Hands down the worst pasta ever. It was undercooked and the pesto was watery. Should be avoided.

I had the meatball sandwich which was excellent. My friend had the four cheese pasta dish, neither of us loved it. The pizzas looked ok. Nothing looked like it was out of this world but it’s a convenient lunch spot

Top Chef’s Fabio Viviani has brilliantly done it again!
Sure I am a bias fan and basically love everything Fabio does… but truly what him and his team has done in the Chase Towers is wonderful. With a open fire burning oven… I was served a freshly hot and deliciously Meatball sandwich. But not just any meatball sandwich my friends… Fabio’s mama’s famous meatball, you know the ones that are bigger than your hands, that are more moist than what seems possible, all topped off with delicious Italilan cheeses. Truly the best meatballs in the city. Now available in two spots in the city!!! They top the sandwich off with olive oil, which I’ve never seen on a meatball sandwich before and man does it make a difference and taste oh so good. But would probably be soggy if not for their impressive oven.
Their team was super friendly and wonderfully charasmatic, even during crazy lunch hour. Bravo Fabio and team!