Bertucci's Brick Oven Ristorante, Washington, D.C.

We went to Bertucci's Brick Oven Ristorante the other night. They are a national chain with dozens of restaurants on the East Coast from Virginia up through New England; we went to the one near GWU. I had a salad, Leo had shrimp fettucine. Then he decided he wanted dessert and couldn't make up his mind what to get, so he ordered their dessert sampler trilogy. It had a cannoli and small pieces of both their chocolate torta and tiramisu. I tasted them all, thought the torta was dry, the tiramisu ordinary, and the cannoli tasty. I will say the service was better than usual (though it's not hard to improve on their usual levels of inattention) and the waiter was quite personable.