Whoa!  I was expecting much more from this place.  Obviously, we have all learned not to judge a book by its cover, but when I first stepped into this place, it looked pretty good.  Nice bar area, great view, etc.  But boy was I wrong.  \n\nI was here for work and ate in the private room.  There was a price fixe menu put together for us.  Given this arrangement, I was all the more surprised by this restaurant's ability to properly execute my meal.  And it wasn't just me, a number of people had the same exact problem.\n\nSo for starters, we had some sort of sushi thing (odd for an italian restaurant but OK), an antipasto plate which was standard but good, and a shellfish plate consisting of oysters, mussels, crab legs, shrimp, and lobster.  This was the only excellent part of the meal.  Go figure, its the element of the meal that required the least amount of preparation.\n\nWe also had a primi piatti of linguini with shrimp and a spicy sauce which was decent.  The problems arose during the secondi piatti.  I ordered the 24 oz. Ribeye steak.  It came out essentially raw in the middle.  I typically like my steak medium rare, so I don't mind a little blood or pinkness in my steak.  But this thing was uncooked in the middle.  And I wasn't the only one.  I think 4 people in my party had to have their steak brought back to the broiler.  And if that wasn't enough, the sides were terrible as well.  The broccolini and polenta basically tasted like nothing.  I am still trying to figure out if the chef simply forgot to season the dishes.  Hopefully, I will never have to go to this restaurant again.  With excellent restaurants such as Nine and Alize residing in the Palms, I fear for the future of this restaurant.\n\nI only gave the restaurant 2 stars because the shellfish plate was great and the service was decent.