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| - Went there tonight. I must say, after the disaster of last night, I wasn't expecting much from Cleveland. Tonight, I had two fellow big boys with big stomachs joining me.
First, the place was spotless. Very clean, very bright, very old/modern look. I know they haven't been open long but it looks like they're going in the right direction. We sat on the side wit the bar which was okay. The other half is more bustling but it was perfect as I was dead tired.
Bread = I never rate bread but this bread was friggin' awesome! A bit oily but that's a great thing. Plain bread that actually had taste.
Calamari = As you can tell, I love calamari. These are obviously store breaded and they were really good. Not the best I've ever had but far from the worst. They had the distinction of being mixed with red peppers and sliced olives so whatever points I would take away from not being the best ever, they pretty much gained back. The marinara sauce that came with them though WAS the BEST EVER. Just an old fashioned Italian style tomato sauce. Friggin' and f---en awesome!
Fried zuchini sticks = BEST EVER! Just right, breaded in-store and not too greasy even though they were deep fried. Same marinara sauce accompaniment and some other sauce that was okay, whatever it was.
Mussels = I didn't try as I have plenty of my own ( I know, I know, muscles) and I don't really like eating ocean boogers. The two guys I were with happened to be seafood vendors and gave these 3 out of 4 thumbs up and said the broth they came in was awesome.
Pizza = Shared by the 3, double pepperoni, sausage. Dough was fantastic, pepperoni was meh and sausage, though good, was barely there. The sauce seemed to be the same marinara sauce. Great for dip, not so much for pizza. When you need to put salt and pepper on a pizza for taste, there's something wrong. Pizza was a huge miss.
Spaghetti & tomato sauce with meat balls, half portion (mine) = Friggin' awesome. Same marinara sauce, perfectly cooked pasta with a giant velvety meatball. All that was wrong with the pizza, you are forgiven.
Veal parmigiana = HUGE portion and the guy said it was really good.
Lemon chicken = Another HUGE portion and he said it wass great as well. 3 out of 4 thumbs up again.
Cannoli = Not tried by me but the two others said it had no sugar or taste. It was also filled in nicely on the ends but was empty in the middle. Hmmmmm, not nice, not nice.
Overall, I would much rather eat out the garbage can of this place than eat at a table at Mad Greek. I give this place 2 thumbs and a few other appendages up. I would give it 5 stars if not for the fogettable, journeyman pizza.
4.5 with a bullet
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