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dateCreated	2017-10-23 00:00:00 (xsd:dateTime)
itemReviewed	Basil & Garlic Bistro
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rev:text	Am torn about giving this location only three stars but given the competition in the Scottsdale area for restaurants I think this one would only be 3 1/2 and I can't give it four. We arrived at about 6:30 on Sunday night to find no one inside and only one table in the courtyard with patrons. It is in the inside corner of a tiny mall at Poinsettia Lane and 92nd with nothing but subdivisions all around. It seems like not many people know this place is here. They were doing a fair amount of carry out business however. We sat inside only because they had the misters on in the courtyard and it was really getting too cold when we walked by. Inside however the ambience really lacks warmth. Perhaps they're trying to save money given the low amount of traffic they have but the lightbulbs in the 10 streetlamp looking fixtures are steely-bright fluorescent style and gave a really cold light to the room. Also although the table tops are wood the chairs and table legs are metal which adds to the cold unflattering appearance of the inside dining room. There were no table covers and the carryout register was in the middle of the room across from the door which gave it an extremely casual feel. The pictures of various cities in Italy on the wall and the streetlamp pictures themselves were cute as it appeared they were trying to make the dining room look like a courtyard in Italy. Unless you can sit outside this is not the kind of place you want to go to for a romantic dinner given their current lighting and table set up in the dining room. We ordered fried calamari and the two specials of the day - chicken piccata and a baked creamy pasta with chicken, broccoli and bacon mixture topped with cheese. The calamari were extremely crispy however they really lacked flavor. We squeezed lemon and added salt and it still didn't taste like enough so we added more salt and finally a third sprinkling of salt brought it close to where it needed to be. The marinara served with it was fine but nothing special. The chicken piccata was very well-balanced with just enough garlic and lemon. Another reviewer or two mentioned that the pasta dishes were served with either too much sauce or too little pasta and I would have to agree for this dish as well. There were 2 pounded out thin pieces of chicken breast which didn't have any kind of browning from the sautéing process but the caper sauce was very good. There was a small amount of pasta on the plate and it did look funny - they either needed to serve less sauce or more pasta. The baked pasta special with creamy chicken, broccoli and bacon was the bomb however. The top was bubbly and brown with plenty of cheese, the rigatoni were probably the wrong pasta to use as many of them dried out as they stuck out of the sauce. The chicken, broccoli, bacon and cream was very flavorful and not mixed well enough with some of the rigatoni so there were some dry pieces of rigatoni on the edges of the dish while the bottom of the dish was super creamy and flavorful. The bread service had nicely salted butter, balsamic vinegar and olive oil options and two pieces of a dense triangle shaped bread. One of them was moist and the other one was definitely dried out and seemed like a leftover from yesterday. Given the ambience and the couple of issues with the entrées I think the prices are just a tad bit too high. The entrées were delicious so if you want a fast, flavorful meal I would recommend it for that.
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