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| - I am a big fan of Zack Bruell, I expected Chinato to follow suit as some of my other favorites (Parallax and Alley Cat), but this one definitely came up shy. My parents and I went here with a college friend of mine and her parents looking for a nice meal and a more sophisticated atmosphere. Some things were a hit and some things were a miss...
First, for an Italian restaurant, wine list was very limited in my opinion, I found one I liked but wasn't blown away. Second, my surroundings. Now as I said this is on more of the upper scale of a restaurant and next to us sat a 25 person table celebrating what looked to be a 16 year old birthday of some sort with at least 15 people under the age of 21 who were extremely loud and then decided to scream happy birthday throughout the restaurant. There is a party room downstairs at this location (WHICH IS SUPER NICE, FYI), why are you not there instead of annoying everyone else around you? *curious emoji*
Third, now I'll get to the food. Our appetizer was actually delicious, we ended up ordering a pizza to split amongst us since we were a bigger party and we got pork, tomatoes, egg, and truffle oil and it was really delicious, perfectly thin stone oven pizza and the combination of the topping was absolutely delicious! The meal is where it kind of fell flat, I ordered to gnocchi (one of my favorite meals of all time) and I think I almost used the entire dish of salt they put on the table because there was absolutely zero flavor. I didn't know if they missed the mark when boiling them or in the sauce but either or, would not order again and ended up not even eating my leftovers. My mom's dish also mentioned it lacked flavor as well and the portions are on the smaller side, but that is to be expected.
Overall I just really wasn't blown away, I wasn't interested in any of the salad's they really had to offer nor the desserts and my food was under par to what I was expecting. Hate to say it, but too much better Italian elsewhere.
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