I am sorry, but all that I have heard about is that I need to try Casa Mia...Casa Mia is the best Italian restaurant in the valley...WRONG! Come on, its really not that hard to make good authentic Italian food here...in 2 1/2 years I have yet to find an Italian restaurant that I enjoy going back to. Therefore, I make my own.
I walked in to see that it was a full restaurant..good sign. The host/owner sat my friends and I down at the last table the restaurant had available. 2 folks were sitting at the small bar. So I would say that there was at least 20 tables...ONLY ONE WAITER! This poor guy is running around while the owner and bartender DID NOTHING BUT WATCH. Already not good. So it took a little while for the waiter to come to our table, not his fault but the owner could have come and taken our drink order which was a bottle of Chianti . (The owner I think thought his last name was Soprano)
The food was not good and not worth the price. I had the calamari in tomato broth...$17 for over cooked calamari in a watered tomato sauce...not good. Then I opted for the penne with chicken and mushrooms in a pink sauce. How can you mess this one...well it happened. It lacked flavor, the chicken and mushrooms were overdone and a bit burnt and the gravy had NO taste....So I tried DUMPING parmesan on...that didn't help!
For dessert, this absolutely kills me....my little sister had the cream puffs with chocolate. Since when are cream puffs supposed to come in a soup of Hershey syrup. Terrible!
I have no intentions of going back to Casa Mia. Too expensive for bad food. And an owner who is just mindless.