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| - Had dinner here Saturday night.
We had no reservations.
After being turned down by an EMPTY restaurant across the street (they said they were fully booked up that night, but the place was huge and only 1 table was seated. I looked around and said to myself, "that's cool, we'll go somewhere where they WANT our money".
We get to this place. It's about 6:30pm. We have no reservations. It's packed already. The guy at the front door says "ok, it'll be tough, but I'll find a way to get you in". We were sitting within 2 minutes.
We ordered an appetizer of prosciutto (sp?) wrapped prawns. Fantastic.
I had the 12 oz veal chop, on a bed of mashed potatoes and veggies. Fantastic.
My mom (who was visiting town so I took her out near her hotel) had a mushroom prawn risotto I believe. She said it was fantastic.
We had dessert. I had the Gelato La Vecchia (what I'm guessing is their signature dessert). It was vanilla ice cream (or gelato, I'm not sure. It's CALLED Gelato, but tasted like ice cream) with chocolate, caramel, and espresso shaved on top. My only complaint about it was that when it arrived it was already a little melted. I'm guessing it's because that place was absolutely PACKED and it was tough for the waiters to get around, so it just came to me a little late. No biggy, I would have liked it more solid, but I'll live.
It was also extremely noisy in there. It's a trendy place I guess, so there were lots of people there, and plenty more sitting at the bar waiting to be seated (likely including the people who's table we stole by not having reservations...) so I know what type of place it is, so I'd likely try to avoid going there on a Saturday night around 7pm because it's gonna hurt my ears. But the food was really good, and the star of the night was probably that prawn appetizer I mention above.
It's on the expensive side for a poor/cheap guy like me. Meat dishes were in the $20-$35 range, but they had pasta dishes in the $18 range. I saw a person at another table eating pasta and it looked like a huge portion. I would love to try it sometime.
Anyway, we had a good time, despite the noise. I approve of this place.
Win.
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