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| - I hadn't been to Del's before their TV makeover, but was eager to try it after seeing their "transformation" on Restaurant Impossible. I'm not overly critical of most places I go, but to be succinct, I was not impressed and won't be going back. The decor was the restaurant's strongest aspect. However, the waitress seemed to have an attitude from the start. Later, I had to ask her to refresh my water, the only thing I was drinking. It wasn't a bustling night and I've had better service at Denny's on a midnight shift.
The house salad I had before the meal was forgettable- seemingly a bagged salad a few days old (brown on the iceberg lettuce), with long, awkward carrot sticks and hard-to-fork, chopped red onions, alongside a plastic cup of runny bleu cheese probably squeezed from a Ken's Steakhouse packet. For dinner, I had the stuffed braciole topped with red sauce and pine nuts. The beef was dry, the stuffing bland, the pine nuts lacked a crisp crunch, and the red sauce was mediocre. My friend had the fettuccine alfredo. Her family owns a restaurant, just like Del's-- family-owned, and while she said she liked her dish enough, she added that the white sauce tasted like it was from a can. For the quality of dishes we had, $16 and $12 respectively, it was overpriced, as well as the $3 house salad. Because of this, we didn't even bother with experimenting with dessert.
What's more telling about the restaurant, was that when we walked in around 9PM on a Saturday (03/31/12), it was moderately busy. Yet, by time we left, around 10, (mostly because we had to wait for the check), the place was almost completely empty, bar and all. I wouldn't recommend this place to a friend. Tessaro's (also on Liberty Ave.) or Kaleidoscope Cafe (43rd St. in Lawrenceville) are much better options.
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