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| - After reading the menu online I was a little wary of eating here, a lot of the dishes aren't actually "authentic" Italian like they claim, but we were going for my grandparent's anniversary so I went in with no expectations. Our server was very friendly and enthusiastic and we got our drinks and orders in quite quickly.
The first thing to come was the bread, I can tell the bread is fresh and tasted homemade. So happy with that! The olive oil to go with the bread wasn't bad, pretty standard. Next we ordered the mushroom caps for appetizer. They smelled amazing, and they tasted pretty good, nicely seasoned. I only wish there were a few more of them, the portion size was a little small for the price and they're just mushrooms after all.
It took quite a while to get the main course, but if it's made fresh to order I'm okay with this. I ordered the gnocchi gorgonzola because I noticed they make their gnocchi in house. The table also ordered veal parmigiana, jumbo shrimp and linguine marinara. The piece of veal is definitely generous and the pasta dishes are also quite large. The jumbo shrimp dish is a little smaller, 6 decent sized shrimp, not the biggest jumbo shrimp I've ever seen but bigger than shrimp in a shrimp ring. It did come served with a side of veggies but I think maybe some rice or potatoes would complete the dish, so if you are a bigger eater definitely get the pasta side.
I did get to try a bite of the shrimp and they were nicely seasoned, the garlic sauce had a nice balance to it and the shrimp were cooked well. The veggies on the side were actually seasoned unlike a lot of other places, unfortunately all besides the broccoli were overcooked. On to the gnocchi; unfortunately the cream sauce with gorgonzola was a let down. It just tasted like cream because there wasn't enough gorgonzola. The dish could use about 4 times more gorgonzola! The positive is the gnocchi were delicious themselves, so soft, you can tell they were actually homemade and fresh. This place definitely has potential to deliver some great dishes, hence my 3 star. But they need to tweak a few things before I'd go back. Please if you're going to have a dish based on gorgonzola don't hold back! I should be tasting more gorgonzola than cream. That dish could have been so good if the cream sauce was up to par.
The rest of the table enjoyed their dishes, I didn't get a chance to try them but they looked good. It took a little too long at the end to collect the plates when we were done and get our bill, but our server looked really busy trying to clean up at closing. Still I think it's more important to check in on tables maybe in between other duties. A few things to improve, but this place has potential.
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