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| - I wanted to like this place. I really did. It sounded like a place I would enjoy being older Italian restaurant that I figured had pretty good food based mainly on the area, how it looked and how I perceived it.
I was wrong. We had dinner last night at DiPietro's, a party of three. The restaurant is basically a pizza parlor up front and a sit down restaurant in back. We ordered a sausage roll and split it between three of us which was very good. I liked the dough, their sauce and the sausage roll itself.
I ordered the chicken parmesan which is a staple in Italian American restaurants. Usually, like pizza even when it's bad it's pretty good. Not in this case. The chicken was pounded so thin and was so over cooked and rubbery it was a shame. The breading was dark brown, bordering on burnt. Sauce was fine on it, but it could've used more. Pasta side dish was over cooked. Pretty bummed out about this.
The other orders at the table were Chicken Picatta and Manicotti. The server was asked if Chicken Piccata could be made as it was not on the menu, but they had Veal Picatta. They were able to accommodate the order. Again, two of the thinnest pieces of chicken I've ever seen and they appeared to be over cooked. The sauce broke very quickly as well. If the chicken wasn't pounded to 1/4" in thickness, both it and the chicken parmesan would have been better. Stop trying to save money by pounding the chicken to death. You're ruining the product! You're charging $17.99 for chicken parmesan and it flat out isn't good!
As for the Manicotti I didn't have it but our guest did. To me it personally looked dry. I don't care for manicotti, but it didn't look great.
I probably wouldn't go back to DiPietro's.
DiPietro's reminds me of a place that was started by a family from the greatest generation and was fantastic for many years, but when the children took over it declined and everything became an after thought. While I know it's not that's the vibe I got from it.
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