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| - We had dinner here last night as live close to Red Rock Casino and had a coupon to try Terra Rossa. They are "known" for their meatballs and homemade ricotta so of course, I want to try these items! The bread basket and olives they bring out in the beginning is nice, the restaurant looks nice, but for an Italian restaurant, the music sounds like it is more Asian than anything Italian. I ordered the cheese ravioli with a side of meatballs and my husband ordered the rigatoni with spicy sausage and tomato cream sauce. The food comes out SUPER quickly which was a little of a red flag for me but we went with it. Upon the food being placed in front of us, my husband's dinner had a whopping two crumbles of sausage in his entire bowl of pasta...and there are the peas in it that he ordered NOT to have, so back it goes. Meanwhile, I take a slow bite of meatball and ravioli while waiting on his food. Meatball is not bad, a little dry, but not bad. The cheese raviolis on my plate, all 4 of them, look deflated. As if they had boiled them for so long that the filling just disappeared. I opened one up with my fork to even see if there is filling inside, remember that "homemade ricotta" I mentioned? That is what is supposedly inside my ravioli but there is only a trace of it so I cannot fairly evaluate the taste of the homemade ricotta to tell you. What I can tell you is the tomato sauce on my ravioli brought back memories of when I would visit a friends house as a kid and her mom would serve us Chef Boy-R-Dee. NO flavor, no seasoning, just tomato....bland, tart, tomato. We agreed that we have found better Italian elsewhere. And, Red Rock has some great restaurants there, but this is not one that I would recommend. I am very happy that we had a coupon as otherwise, I would be really upset if I had paid that total bill for what was served to us. I also did not care for the servers to wear jeans! I as the patron should be able to wear jeans, but if a restaurant presents themselves as upscale, WHY would your servers wear jeans??? Mixed messages with music and attire for what this restaurant wants to be. It is a nice looking place so I gave it two stars, perhaps go in and have a drink at their lovely bar, but save dinner for another dining option.
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