On the importance of bread: To me it is important. And the All’Antico Vinaio site boasts of “exceptional ingredients and freshly baked Tuscan schiacciata bread.” Now freshly baked can mean different things, but the flattish bread they offer dries easily and the ones I was offered at the 8th Ave location in NY was dry enough to displease me.
Their spreads were very tasty, as I’ve noted, but too tasty in that they overwhelmed the more delicate of their meats.
