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| - First time here. Some Yelp reviewers had written that the place looked dirty and was in need of a makeover. The place didn't look dirty at all. What the place needs is to replace the carpeting. Carpeting is not a good idea in most restaurants because it quickly shows its age. Now for the important part, the food.
Ordered a glass of chianti and a salad from the happy hour menu. Very decent glass of wine for the price. The salad was freshly made, served on a chilled plate, and had a variety of items in it including artichoke hearts, black olives, onions, you know, salad stuff. Salad was $3 off the regular price because of happy hour--I like that. They served us a basket of fresh, hot bread accompanied by herbed butter. Very good bread--so got we got seconds.
One order was Chicken Marsala ($18.95) with penne and vegetables. Hubby thought the marsala sauce was a tad too salty and that the chicken (because it was thin) was slightly overdone. The tastes were good and the red sauce on the penne was very good.
My Pasta Romantica ($21.95)was made with 6 shrimp, capers, marinara sauce and cognac. I had them use angel hair as I don't like heavy pastas. OMG. I wanted to start dancing on the table after my first bite. (That means I liked it). The flavors were amazing with the caper flavor shining through and perfuming the pasta with its essence. You didn't know I was a poet did you? I was in awe of this dish. Their marinara sauce is really, really good so building on this great sauce is easy. I couldn't finish the dish because it was really a large portion but I packed it because I am going to have another amazing dinner tomorrow. We finished off our meals with iced amaretto. Blake, our server, was very attentive and responsive to our questions and requests.
Roma's prices are higher than their local competitors and I found that the pricing on their actual restaurant menu was higher than those posted on the internet. I don't mind paying more money for good food so we shall definitely be returning. Next time I'll check into Yelp and get 10% off my bill, or so I hear.
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