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| - This restaurant was such a disappointment for me. When I asked around from students who had been there before, they all told me it was a really nice elegant tasty restaurant. That is far from the truth. I expected something really nice and posh, and well...tasty.
Instead, when we got there everything looked really cheap and tacky. I'm not sure if it's because this place was in Urbana and they thought they didn't need to be nice or what, but it just was sad.
I thought maybe the food would redeem itself, but NO. We ordered the caprese and let me say I've had much much better. The whole thing was so inedible. We ordered that because it looked like an appetizer that you cannot mess up, but we were wrong.
In addition, my friend is a vegetarian and they had only one or two items on the entire menu that were vegetarian friendly. I hate when a restaurant skimps out on vegetarian meals. I am not a vegetarian, but I do like to occasionally skip on meat. The whole menu in general did not give a classy vibe. I do not know if it's because I've seen really good menus in Chicago and I'm being biased, but this was not good at all.
The vegetarian pasta I ordered was really extremely bland. It supposedly had pesto sauce, but you could barely taste it, and the veggies were definitely undercooked for sure.
When I heard it was supposed to be a nice dressy place I put on a dress and thought I'd blend in well, but then when we got there, it was a mix of people really dressed up and others wearing sweats and a t-shirt. I do not know what that was all about, but it turned me off.
I hear the steaks are great, so maybe that's the only thing they specialize in?
I can understand why someone living in Urbana or Champaign would come here seeing as there are limited nice restaurants in the area, but I would rather go to Timpones, Biaggis or Jim Gould's over Kennedy's.
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