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| - Ok, if you are looking for a cheap "Italian" dinner, then this is the place to go, they advertise that all of their entrees are under $20... But one bite into your meal, you see why.
In our experience, the service was awful. We were ignored at the door, so we went to the bar. Quickly received & paid for our drinks, and told the bartender that we were waiting for a table... a few minutes later the host scurried up to the podium and told us she had a table for us. Upon being seated, we looked thru the menu, finished our drinks, and waited, and waited, and waited for our server. I'm sure our faces displayed our thinning patience, and someone (who I can only assume was a Manager or Supervisor) came over to take our drink order. We ordered our drinks, and told her that we were also ready to order our dinners... she said our server would be right over. Quite a few minutes later, or server rushed up to the table, apologized for the wait (which I respect), and offered to take our drink order... we explained that someone already had, but that we were ready to order our meals. We did so, and a couple minutes later our drinks arrived. At this point, I was beyond frustrated, and was very happy to see that our food was delivered rather quickly by a foodrunner/busser.
Unfortunately, we then tasted our meals... The food was bland, small portioned, and extremely un-impressive. We had eaten appetizers at MRKT just across the way, and had decided to try Il Vino since it had recently re-opened, and appeared to be a beautiful restaurant with a classy ambiance... I wish we'd stayed at MRKT.
Besides the tasteless Minestrone and Manicotti, the Caprese salad had so much salt on it, it was almost CRUNCHY.
We were completely finished with our meals, and the server had not once returned to check on us. In fact, we were able to watch him visit his two other tables multiple times, while seemingly forgetting about us in the corner.
We were planning on getting dessert, as we were out to celebrate our anniversary, but everything took so long that we ended up approaching another server in order to get our check, pay and leave. We expressed our dissatisfaction to the other server, and no one was ever involved to make sure we were leaving happy.
I will never go back. Go to MRKT instead. :)
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