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| - My wife and I went to Gianni's for dinner around 6pm. We were only the second table to be seated. Here is the short version. The place is decent inside. I read in another review that "Gianni's is definitely the finest dining in Concord without question", this is a mistake, it is the ONLY "fine dining" or attempt at fine dining in Concord. The wait staff are dressed correctly but are in no way trained in fine dining. Our waitress was nice enough but just didn't know. The owner is an authentic Italian and he most definitely reinforces the stereo type movie "I-talian". He stopped by our table to ask how everything was in his best wise guy accent adorned with lots of gold jewelry and the signature Italian horn hanging over his (insert racial remark T-shirt) along with lots of body hair and a cell phone hanging off his side. I don't know if it's for show or it's the real him, but my wife and I are both of Italian decent and having been brought up around Boston's North End we all know a few of these guys both authentic and wannabes. Not quite who you want hanging over your dinner plate! The never ending pizza take out traffic didn't help the dining experience either. One woman came dressed in her jammies with slippers on (common occurrence here in the south) to pick up pizza. It is somewhat uncomfortable when you're sitting there dressed up having dinner with suspecting unbathed people passing close by your table to pick up pizza.
Never the less the food is good, well-seasoned and cooked right. Go for what it is, decent food with somewhat entertaining antics at times, but don't expect much more than that. We got friends who loves this place and they said the pizza traffic has been recently rerouted as to not pass through the dining room. I went to check it out on the website but their account has been suspended!!
We've been back to the tratt for lunch a couple times since our last review titled "Not Fine Dining" which it isn't, but we gave the food a very good rating. Lunch is incredible, just for the sole reason the food is creative, seasoned well, tastes good, and is inexpensive. So refreshing to have a place to go that isn't some mindless franchise. If it wasn't for the all the pronoucing of R's and drawn out words, we could have been in the North End of Boston at any one of the authentic italian joints tucked into some nook on a side street with the smell of garlic sauteeing in olive oil. NICE. I'm going to take back my statement that we'll be "suspending our patronage" as who cares if its fine dining or not, all I know is that for 6.99 you get your choice of soup or salad and an authentic great tasting italian dish with a couple pieces of garlic bread! But yet, people still pack into the McBag for a number something or some plate lunch with box potatoes covered in jar gravy joint, and pay more for the digestible plastic than they would a tratt lunch. I just don't get it
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