FYI if you do not want to read this long winded review the last paragraph sums it up. I really hate to give a 1 star review to mom and pop type of place, but this was well deserved.
Let start this by saying there was a blizzard going on and we did not want to drive any further. Lets try and find that next mom and pop gem.
Were seated and our server immediately greeted us and brings us water with lemon and fresh warm crusty bread nom nom. nom. We look around and the place is full of older people and teenagers. Seems like the type of place for a high school 1st date.
We started out with a big bowl of pasta fagioli. After one taste of this i kind of knew this place may not be one of those mom and pop gems. There was no flavor to the soup and half the pasta was cooked and half was a bit less than al dente. On top of that it lukewarm.
The salad that we ate was typical iceberg lettuce, mozzarella wedge of tomato, and an olive. The salad dressing was pretty good.
The chicken parm, it was about 16$ and we ordered a side of meatballs with the pasta.
Lets start out- the size of the chicken was easily half of what you would get anywhere else. That's would have been OK except the sauce that it was swimming in was like a watered down version of ragu and had a sweet but bitter after taste. Missing were chunks of tomato and or a hint of garlic that most decent sauces posses. Its like they were using some type of canned pizza sauce.
The meatballs also were void of any flavor, I could see a bit of what appear to be some dry herbs in the meat, prepackaged meatballs would have been better.
Lastly it came time to pay the bill. I had checked in here on Yelp and to my surprise there was a 5 dollar off deal for checking in!. I go to redeem this and whom I imagine was the owner tells me that this is not his website and he does not pay Yelp and the discount is not honored. No big deal only 5$.
Congratulations you now have learned the difference between 1 star and 2. When management is rude, have really below average quality, poor value you deserve a 1 star rating.