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| - I've tried Frankie's twice now for carryout for business lunch because I work five minutes away. I have to say I'm unimpressed. I'm in the restaurant business myself, one of my two jobs, so I can be pretty understanding as well as pretty critical. Also, Italian food is my all time favorite so I place a high value on restaurants that specialize in it. I DO work at an Italian restaurant, but this review reflects no bias, for I believe each place holds it's own merit and I have no problem eating at "the competition."
Anyways, the first time I tried the food was probably around 5 months ago and it was the chicken parm sandwich. The chicken was fried and that's not unexpected, but I hoped for maybe baked because I feel that's the real way to cook chicken for a respectable restaurant such as this; so no points taken off because it wasn't particularly greasy. The problem with the sandwich, however, lied in that it was critically under-sauced, making it dry. The same happened for my boss on her meatball sub. These sandwiches were kind of hard to get through. I admit I like things over sauced, but I can objectively say it seemed like no more than a small spoonful of sauce. The potato wedges I got with it were fine, but nothing special.
Today was our second time ordering from here. I got the cheese tortellini with the roasted red pepper pesto sauce and regrettably it was undersauced yet again. There looked to be a tablespoon full of the pesto over a very large order of pasta; note the portion size is to it's credit! I even ordered extra sauce on the side anticipating this and it was but a plastic ramekin full and still left it under sauced. Now, this was a chunky red pepper pesto and I don't know how big the portion size would usually be, but it was bland and with most of the tortellini being without it, was also very bland. This made me wonder if I had ordered a sauce that is usually served plentifully, like the alfredo, would it have had an adequate amount on it, or would it too have been light? It wasn't awful, but overall, meh. The bread that came with it looked like an unsliced sub roll, but it was pretty good.
I also got an order of the clam chowder (New England style). It wasn't out of this world, but it definitely was my favorite part of the meal.
Overall, I feel this is good for run of the mill Italian, but not a place I would pick if given a choice. If you're in a hurry to pick up something after work or out and about and don't feel like going far, this place will do.
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