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| - Took my son out for his birthday dinner with 6:30pm reservations. I told them it was a birthday celebration but they never acknowledged it. By 7pm it was packed, a piano player and a Friday evening combination. The chairs were all wood and no padding. After 30 minutes my poor butt began complaining and by the hour it was quite painful. Our appetizer "fried calamari" was crisp, tender and super bland. Lots of salt and pepper couldn't redeem it. The basket of bread was at best, fair. We both ordered Seafood Fradiavolo, described on the menu as " mussels, clams, shrimp and calamari over linguine in our spicy marinara". Fairly nice portion of the seafood, cooked well but so bland as to have little taste. The linguine were cooked al dente and obviously not house made. Lemon juice, salt, pepper and grated parmagiano cheese couldn't redeem these dishes either. I ate about half this dish when normally I would devour it all. If only they would season their dishes, they used to be much better. The marinara sauce tasted like straight tomato sauce, sigh. The wait staff were friendly, pleasant and efficient. Between the piano playing and everyone speaking loudly there was a roar in the room. I could have possibly endured the uncomfortable chairs if my ears hadn't hurt as well. I doubt very much that I would return.
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