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| - We came here on New Years Eve with some old friends - looking forward to some great Italian food. We left a little disappointed.
We started with some appetizers - the calamari was awesome, and the kids liked the mozzarella sticks. The hot antipasti for two was good, with the exception of the mussels (maybe just a preference of mine). We ordered two platters for seven of us and it was more than enough.
Dinner is where the struggles came.
Special tonight - lobster tail with scallops in a scampi sauce over linguini - who could resist it? We ordered two of them. Also ordered chicken parm, shrimp scampi, osco buco, chicken francaise (not on the menu but they said they make it) and a side of linguini and clams.
I'll start by saying our food came out before they started clearing our appetizers and salad, and there was stuff everywhere, stacked and ready to tip over.
The chicken parm did not disappoint, the guys loved it and the portions were very large. And the Osco buco was so tender and flavorful. Really special.
The lobster tails were so over cooked and tough that we could not get the meat out of the shell. And two of us ordered the same meal, one of us got five scallops and the other one (me) got 3. We told our waiter when he came back about the lobster and he said either give me your whole plate and order something else, or keep it. He did say it wasn't him it was his manager, but "say what"? We said can't we just keep the plate and you bring new lobster tails. He came back and said all he could do was take $10 off each plate. Ok we said. So much for lobster tonight.
The chicken francaise was COVERED in mushrooms. If you like them, that's awesome. If you don't, and don't expect them, it kind of ruins the meal. When we asked, the waiter said they always serve mushrooms with their francaise (never seen that before but ok) so my daughter took them off. She ordered gnocchi on the side but it was a bit doughy.
The pizza we ordered for our 3 year old came our about ten minutes after our food, we can only assume the forgot the first time around.
Drink refills were slow, again I assume because it was busy.
All in all we will go back, but thought the review was fair.
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