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| - So, I've been to terra verde multiple times, and before yesterday, I enjoyed it. Me and two friends arrived there at 9 pm, having suggested this restaurant. The hostess greeted us warmly , and told us to wait at their brand new lounge. They had remodeled the week before, and the architecture was beautifully redone.
We waited in the lounge for around 5 minutes, which is decent because we were walk ins. Finally, we were seated. They served us "complimentary" hor d'ouvres, which included delicious zucchini chips, olives, parmasan cheese, bell peppers, and artichokes. We also received some bread.
For appetizers, we had the calamari. The service started sucking at this point, where we saw the calamari finished, just sitting on the kitchen station. It sat there forever, and we were hungry ... so we asked the busboy to grab it for us. Besides the fact that the calamari was slightly cold, it tasted ok and we hoped for a better entree.
But, that was not the case. We waited for our entree for a while, with no one in sight. Finally, the server brought the food after a long silence had fallen upon the table. I had the osso bucco with saffron risotto, and it was terrible. The risotto was undercooked, and the osso bucco was a bit cold and dry. The artistic presentation was disgusting, it was meat on top on yellow risotto. No garnish, no design whatsoever, just meat on top of rice. How much worse can it get? One of my friends had the chicken with italian brocolli. He told me that the chicken was dry and cold. Again, the presentation was so unoriginal. Chicken on top of brocolli with sauce on the side, a whole grain mustard creme sauce. Yuck. The best entree by far that we had was the pizza, and it was just a sausage pizza. It is the easiet thing to make, and if they screwed that up.... the pizza was decent, but it was cold as well, nothing special.
Overall, I definately would not go back. The service was terrible, maybe a 1 star, for he brought out our food late or did not bring it out at all and he pretty much ignored us most of the time. The food went from good to bad, the samplers excellent, the rest, not so. The food was close to mediocre, and it was not worth it going there. Before, I would of given this place a 4 star, but now.... Don't go unless you want to admire the new architecture.
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