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| - Huge Italian food fan here so of course I'm going to give this place a try. I've come just for the desserts before and loved the Zeppole (deep fried dough with sugar and hazelnut sauce on the side). It's a really simple dessert and easy one biters.
We actually had our company party here and they were amazing helping us get the party room booked and set up. We had a nice time, a great space to ourselves, and there were 4 servers for our party. To start off, we had the Scaddabush garlic bread and garden/ caesar salad.The bread was drenched in oil, so not the type of garlic bread I would go for, but that garden salad was perfect. Lightly dressed with a vinaigrette and lots of bright, unwilted colours.
The mains were a bit disappointing. The crusted snapper was good, but the fish was very heavily crusted so it wasn't so much a fillet of fish.. more like crumbs of fish. Flavour wise, it was nice and light, and most people seemed to enjoy it as well. The Chicken Parmesan was a huge let down. The spaghetti was a mushy pile of mush..wayyy over cooked and not much flavour. The chicken did not seem to have been seasoned at all and the cheese on top was very bland. The tomato sauce was also very bland. over all, it was a bland dish that most of us who ordered it were fairly disappointed with.
The dessert came by and we had sorbetto. Wildberry was very VERY sweet. Most of us did not finish it. The lemon flavour was super sour, and again, very concentrated tasting. Neither tasted like it was made with any fresh ingredients which was very disappointing.
We had ordered teas and coffees.. only about 10/50 people got theirs.. The rest of us had the little milk container and the sugars, but never received our tea's/coffee's.
Over all, the staff are nice and the food at regular tables looked great, so I would probably return as a regular customer to try again. I would not recommend booking a party here. It seems that the party menu is not cooked with the same attention to detail as if you were a regular table here. And you don't get to finish the meal off with your coffee/tea.
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