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| - We are from Cincinnati, so we've only gotten to visit this place twice, but both times have been great experiences. The food is wonderful! For example, the antipasto plate comprises really wonderful, high quality olives, cheese, prosciutto, salami, pepperoni, and pepperocini. VERY high quality. All the pastas, meats, and seafood entrees were wonderful. The kitchen cooperates if you want to customize a dish w a different sauce or pasta, no sweat. No, it's not Olive Garden.....it's a far superior offering. Personal: like how your mom and my mom don't make identical meat loaf? This Italian is not precisely like anybody else's Italian. The bread was great and they'll bring seasoned oil upon request. The wine list was fine (in a very un-snobby way). There were many bottled beers, not draft. (The waitress didn't know what draft beer was!) Parking is tight, but the attendant tried to help. Service was perhaps a little amateurish, but warm, efficient, and accurate, even with a large party. The sum total (great food, personable dining room, cheap wine, quality ingredients) tells you in a nutshell why a customer chooses this over a corporate, chain experience. Because good and bad, for better and for worse, this is real food with with heart and soul. Just like people, its strengths (small, homey, affordable, relaxed) and its weaknesses are one and the same.
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