Viva

Pamela Portland

Beautiful dining room. Disappointing food and service. Lavender prosecco cocktail was lovely. Only one other table on a Saturday night. Waitress brought soup and main course all together. Tables are small. She never cleared the soup dishes. Table was filled with dirty plates when we asked for the bill. Wait staff too busy making conversation with other staff to bother with diners. Training, customer service lacking. Pasta over cooked. Mushy. This establishment must get serious with attention to detail.

A S

The service was fantastic. The server was very kind and refilled our drinks promptly. The food took awhile despite how few tables were seated, but the worst was the shrimp cocktail. We ordered two shrimp cocktail appetizers which were fairly bad. It had less than four shrimp in each cocktail and the sauce was extremely celery salty. It was too salty to enjoy and the sauce itself tasted like concentrated bloody mary mix. For how expensive it was I'd expect to get a few more shrimp and a better flavor. My dad's burrito was good, though. I would give it no stars, but our server was excellent. They deserved five stars alone.

Cheryl Hawk

I brought my out-of-town guest to Viva because the food has always been excellent. (The service has always been slow, however.) Our waitress forgot about us because she was dealing with a wedding party. The food was exceptionally spicy. I love spicy food but this was inedible. I grabbed a pitcher of water off the bar because our water glasses had not been refilled during the entire meal. We continued to wait for our bill for quite awhile (20 minutes?). It wasn’t until a manager of the Current walked by and saw us looking displeased that our waitress came to our table with our check and apologized that she’s so busy, she forgot about us. There was other wait staff, standing around talking. I’ve never not left a tip for wait staff until that night. The decor and ambiance is nice. Oh and the salsa and guacamole are good as well.

Eric Curtis

The staff tries hard, but this place just isn't worth it. I don't see it being around very long. There are more tequilas on the menu then actual food. And the food offerings are just... Odd. You can tell they were trying for some high class Mexican fusion cuisine, but it just didn't work. Our experience. Party of 10+ on a weeknight. We had reservations. The menu doesn't describe the food well, and had to be explained. Lots of questions. They have one actual steak dish on the menu, but they ran out. According to the server, they had been out of steak for several days. Some of our dishes arrived to the table cold and sloppy. They serve chips and salsa. The chips were stale and tasteless. Environment... It looks like a hotel lobby. White Stone walls and floors. Very artistic light fixtures. In general very bright, white and clean. It echoed a lot and was hard to hear. All in all, the staff tries hard, but it's just not worth it. I won't be going back and I don't recommend it to others either.