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| - This is hard to rate coming from the Chicagoland area, so I just averaged it and went with 3 stars. If this restaurant were in Chicago, I'd give it 1 star.
In Champaign with no decent sitdown restaurants around, it might qualify as a 4-5 star place.
Service was absolutely outstanding. The server really made our dinner a wonderful positive experience with his excellent service. He went out of his way to bring us whatever we needed and was very attentive. He was great. (Knowing he was most likely a college student, we made sure to tip him double what we'd normally tip.)
As long as you understand you are not in the Chicago area, then the food is good and you'll be happy.
We had a very unique appetizer that we've never seen before that we all loved. It was a side of chopped tomatoes (mixed like a bruscetta mixture a bit), and another side of delicious green olives, and it came with sliced bread. I thought it was a really neat concept.
I had the Chicken Marsala, which included about 4 pieces of chicken. It was very good, full of flavor. The side of pasta wasn't the best pasta sauce I've had (tasted tomato-pasty), but again it's Champaign, IL. It was edible and not bad.
WARNING: Do NOT order the Pizza!!!! We ordered the Pizza Marguerita.. It was by far the worst most discusting pizza we've ever had. It was like tasteless cardboard with extremely heavy cheese that you couldn't pry off, with no tomato sauce on it. It was unedible by any of us at the table. I know I've heard the expression not to order Pizza outside the Chicagoland area, and now I see why. We did send it back and they removed it from our bill no problem.
Unless other options become available, we would go back.
The service made it worth it.
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