I went to Chianti in December 2010, after living in Italy for four years. I would describe the atmosphere as McDonalds-meets-Olive Garden, in that it looks like it was decorated with the faux-Italian decorations leftover at a HomeSense clearance event. We went on a snowy Sunday because we'd seen online that they had a pasta special; upon arrival we found ourselves to be pretty much the only people under the age of seventy-five.
I'm not sure the name of the pasta dish that I ordered but it was a vegetarian one, with a creamy tomato sauce. It came with huge chunks of almost-raw CELERY and CARROTS mixed into (Barilla?) pasta and okay sauce. I think they just took some of the vegetables normally used in the minestrone and heated them in the sauce for a few minutes before tossing in the pasta. The vegetables were both totally inauthentic and totally unappetizing. On the side there was an okay salad (with more chunky vegetables from the same bowl, I would say). It wasn't worth the $7 lunch special price and I'd hate to think anyone ever paid more than that. I have NO plans to return to Chianti.