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| - We wanted to like this neighborhood spot, but left thinking it deserves a restaurant makeover. We went in after the movies and were the only people there; the server greeted us and then diverted to handle a larger party that came in after us and we got served by the bartender. I'm not sure how two tables qualifies as a service challenge.
That said, the servers were friendly.
The garlic bread that was delivered was reminiscent of greasy Pillsbury dough balls lightly salted with a hint of garlic. The oil on the table could not possibly have been olive, more like corn or canola or safflower. Tasteless, with an acidic aftertaste.
My caprese salad consisted of three slices of an unripe hothouse beefsteak tomato thinly sliced with packaged mozzarella. That said, the lettuce salad that accompanied it was the highlight of the meal, fresh and well dressed.
The kitchen was completely out of veal, so I ordered the chicken parm. I got a large breast, tasteless and tastelessly breaded, with a tasteless fresh tomato sauce which also topped the boxed linguine.
My daughter's angel hair pesto was uninspired and bland, and my wife suggested that a restaurant makeover artist would have said her Carbonara resembled no Carbonara served in any other restaurant. It wasn't as tasteless as everything else, instead it was heavily garlicky.
Sorry but we're not going back.
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