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| - Amarone has wonderful service and a nice, upscale dining room, but it is quite overpriced for what you get. The best part of the meal was great flatbread they brought out to start, with a delicious eggplant/onion/caper/etc. mix to go with it. Once you're actually paying for the food, your expectations probably won't be met. The caprese should definitely be avoided - for $10, you get the cheap, hard mozzarella usually used in pizzas. It's the most expensive and worst caprese I've ever had, and I eat A LOT of caprese. I've never had a restaurant use the cheap, hard mozzarella in caprese, no matter what the price. For $10, they should give you the good buffalo mozz (or better yet, the soft, creamy mozz) and some hearty beefsteak tomatoes would have been nice. However, our farfalle pasta with asparagus and smoked chicken in a cream sauce was yummy. Again, a little pricey at $17 for just noodles, chicken, and asparagus, three fairly cheap ingredients. I don't mind paying for upscale Italian, but it should be innovative food with high quality ingredients, not neighborhood Italian food that's $2-3 more per dish than everywhere else. Amarone, here's a tip - ditch the loud singer/guitar player and charge us a little less for your dishes...oh, and you better start using the good mozz, because I've had grocery store caprese better than yours for half the price!
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