Walking into Brio is like walking into some kind of palace. \nIts highly ornate decor, combined with the well dressed staff make me feel like royalty.\n\nPrincely, I order, with a quick hand gesture shooing my waiter when finished. I'm in full character now. \nAll further communication with my server will be hand gestures, either kissing the fingers on one hand to signal bravo, or the back of my palm in a waving, dismissive manner.\n\nI do neither.\nInstead, I enter into a vegetative state, still in shock from seeing the shallow little bowl of Pasta E Fagioli they just served up. \nThen I taste it. \nThat's when I wish they would have assigned me a royal taste tester to make certain an unruly chef wasn't trying to poison his magnate. \n\nI get through the soup, but I'm still unable to speak for fear the next thing out of my mouth will be \"Off with his head!\"\n\nI've learned the hard way it's not pc to invoke the term 'head' when on a date, and in such palatial surroundings.