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 | 	- After hearing good reviews from this place, my boyfriend and I decided to try it. We ordered takeout as we couldn't sit in due to time constraints, but we live in the area, so the food was still hot when we returned home. Unfortunately, we were quite disappointed with the food.
This restaurant feels like a family-style restaurant that has been around for a very long time (which it has, 50 years at least i think).  When I went to pick up my order from the guy at the bar, I took a good look around. The decor was a bit dated, though spacious, and the clientele was primarily an older crowd with a couple of families and couples. They also have a patio.
We ordered the chicken parmigiana and medium deluxe pizza which came to ~$40. When we got home to eat our food, my food was packed in a tray with three divisions, one for a few pieces of carrot and broccoli, one for linguine with tomato sauce, and in the middle was the breaded chicken. 
Quality and taste? Unfortunately, poor. The sauce was very bland and I actually had to add salt to it, which is not something I normally do.  The chicken was seasoned well enough, and the portion was large, but the pasta was nothing special as it was dried pasta, and the vegetables seemed like it was from frozen. The pizza? The bottom was slightly burned and although they called it "gourmet pizza" on their menu, it was far from it. The menu itself seems quite dated (particularly the photos) and lacked creativity.
All in all, I was quite disappointed. I thought that maybe getting takeout would taint my experience but I'm sure the sauce wouldn't have been more flavourful even if I had dined in. Unfortunately, there aren't too many good Italian restaurants around the area, but I think that next time I'd rather drive out a bit further south on Yonge for something better.
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