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I have no idea why people rave about this place. Ill go piece by piece.
Counter style ordering doesn't really bother me, and the guy taking my order was super cool. The behind him though, kind of a jerk and kept bitching about getting in late orders. It was close to closing probably 45 minutes out, I wasn't at the 30 minute mark so I think i was good. I walked in and then 20 others walked in behind me, obviously DeFalcos is no stranger to later diners.
Ordered chicken parm and mac and cheese. The chicken cutlet itself was absolutely nothing to call home about. It was pounded out, breaded and friend appropriately, nothing special at all. The pasta was way over cooked, and the red sauce, was watered down and lacked any depth or flavor. Ive cooked, and eaten both American Italian and traditional Italian my entire life and this sauce fell very short of what I expected. It wasn't like it was a quick crushed tomato, garlic, red pepper, onion, basil sauce that you through together on Tuesday. It was an I spent all day making this sauce, let me dump some water into it.
Mac and cheese, same deal. Noodles were overcooked, the mornay was a joke. Literally watered down and tasted like nothing. I tried to taste it, it literally tasted like nothing. I put some salt and pepper on it, it tasted like nothing and salt and pepper.
Finally the garlic bread. It was good, extremely reminiscent of the frozen garlic bread. Not being rude here it just was reminiscent of the frozen garlic bread. I regret having to write this, i thought everyone was spot on about this place but it was not good at all.
My $0.02.
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