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| - We dined here last night for a early valentine's day celebration. As locals working in the industry you very rarely celebrate anything on the actual day. When first arriving to the restaurant we noticed how beautifully decorated the hotel and entrance to the restaurant was. If you remember what Bill's was before you would agree how much of a face lift this place got. We checked out the photo booth before dinner since we got there 5 mins before our reso and they didn't seat us right away. As we walked out of the booth the hostess told us our table was ready but not to worry about the pictures cuz it was out of paper to print them. Why wouldn't you put a sign up or something so guests know to email the photos to themselves? Or not take the pictures at all. Whatever! We followed the hostess to what seemed like the back corner of the restaurant. The table she tried to seat us at was literally in the corner with a deuce so close to it we might as well have had dinner with the couple next to us and been a party of 4. I asked her if any other table would be available. She had us wait in the lounge while she went back to check. We didn't mind the wait, about 15-20 mins, ordered a cocktail to start. Great selling tactic if it was one! Taylor, the hostess, came back to escort us to a table by the window overlooking the fountains. She was super friendly and accomadating! Honestly her willingness to help us was probably the highlight of our night. Once at the table our server came over and greeted us, presented a wine list and dinner menu. He took a moment to explain the menu and some signature dishes. The gm came over and interrupted him during his spiel, said hi to us, said something to the server, and then walked away. Weird. (And he never touched the table after that) I was torn between a couple different items and asked the server what he would recommend. He didn't seem as if he wanted to answer my questions. Almost as if we were bothering him. We ended up ordering the orzo meatballs, bacon wrapped dates, burrata, and the tricolore salad to start. They were all good, nothing spectacular. The bread selection was good though. We wanted to order a bottle of wine but had a couple questions for the sommelier. He was tied up at another table and we didn't get a chance to order the wine until we were done with our apps. A little disappointing. In his defense the apps did come out quite quickly. But still, no one likes to be rushed. The weird thing was the apps came out super quick but we waited a long time for our entrees. For our entrees I got the spaghetti, her signature dish. It had these huge prawns with lemon and capers. It sounds better on paper than it was. My bf had the pasta with the pork ragout. Both dishes were very bland. We had to add salt and red pepper flakes from the bread presentation to spice it up. I hate to say it but we were super disappointed. We had heard so many good things about this place but didn't have anything good for ourselves. They have this dessert cart that you see going around that apparently is only for the patrons who ordered the tasting menu. So don't get your hopes up when you see it unless you have the tasting menu. We ordered the cookies for dessert since nothing really jumped out at us. They were unique. Not soon after we dug into the cookies our server dropped the check. Obviously he had someplace else to be and we were in his way! Overall we were disappointed. Not to mention once the bottle of wine was opened we had to keep pouring it ourselves. Maybe $100 bottle of wine is too cheap to have any sort of table maintenance. The server hardly came by to check on us. Maybe we were just to critical of the place or maybe they were having an off day. But none the less, with so many great options in this city Giadas will not be at the top of our list. Sometimes people that work in the same industry are much more critical than others. Or maybe not, who really knows.
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