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First off this is family style multi-course meal; every main dish comes with a salad and pasta dish to share. The salad is one of the best salads I remember eating and could easily be enough for an appetizer. The pasta tossed in a vodka sauce was just ok. The homemade pasta is not actually made in house (I asked), but it is 'fresh,' which I'm assuming meant bought from a store on the strip or a market district.
We had also ordered the calamari and the meatball appetizer because we were starving and that proved to be way too much food for a family of 5. If you must get an appetizer, I highly recommend the meatball, you will not regret.
The veal chop is easily the best thing on the menu and where Alla Famiglia really shines. From all the pasta plates and steaks and seafood dishes that were ordered at our table, the veal chop was by the unanimous favorite at our table. Incredible flavors and tender cuts, but by the time you get to the main course, you're full with the bread, salad, and pasta that comes before you can't really enjoy it fully. Most plates come with a side of their grilled veggies (which again were ok), but some dishes come with nothing so I would make sure to ask if you need a side. So long story short, this is a marathon and don't expect to be done in an hour and a half. Pace so you can really enjoy that veal chop at the end!
When you first walk in it seems very small, but there are back rooms and stairs that go up one or two floors. There's also a back patio one floor up from ground floor. It's tight sitting spaces, but very cute and authentically Italian.
So now that we established that the ambiance and food are pretty solid, the thing that earned this 3 stars is how we were hosted to our table. We had a reservation at 7:30pm and were 30minutes early, which we recognize is nowhere near to our reservation time so we elected to grab drinks and sit on the patio. When 7:30 comes around we inquire about our table only to be told that there was not a sitting space yet, which would be ok minus the fact that there were multiple tables open that we asked about. 7:45 we asked again and were told that they were setting up a table immediately. 8:10 comes around and we're still not seated so had to ask the hostess again, which apologized and sat us at the table we had asked about 40 minutes ago when our reservation time was. It took 40 minutes to seat us at our table for our reservation time of 7:30 when there were tables open.
It was a frustrating experience because everyone was hungry and we weren't even offered bread sitting on their patio... The frustration unfortunately set the mood for the dinner and although our food was great, we didn't really enjoy the time we had here.
We really wanted to love Alla Famiglia. Perhaps we'll try one more time and hope our experience is better.
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