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  • Fool me once, Battista's, shame on you. Fool me twice.... I originally went to Battista's around 2006, when I first moved to Vegas and had heard about how it was this awesome old Italian joint. Ok, checked it out. But the food sucked. I'm no chef, and I remember walking out of there thinking, "I could have made better ravioli than that! And it wasn't even cheap!" I vowed never to go back. Fast forward to 2015. I read a glowing review of Battista's from Rick Moonen in the LV Weekly, and thought, "maybe they've changed the food!" We were in the area a couple weeks ago and decided to return, give it another chance. The inside still has that cool mob hangout feel and there's an old guy walking around playing an accordion. That's why they get the 2nd star. Overview for those who haven't been: everybody orders a "dinner" which comes with entrée, soup or salad, garlic bread, unlimited house wine, and coffee. If you choose not to order an entrée, you still have to pay for a dinner: $19 since you could be cheating and drinking out of somebody else's baby wine glass of $3 wine (what they serve is on par with 2 buck chuck, no question). I wouldn't even care about the weird setup if the food was actually good. The salad (a handful of lettuce with a piece of salami and shredded carrots on top) came out about the time the words "I'll have the salad" were coming out of my mouth. Soup was fine for minestrone. Where they really failed was the entrée. I asked the waiter what was their signature dish, but he seemed baffled by the question, and instead asked, "you mean something you can't get anywhere else? That's the chicken rio." Ok fine, I'll take the chicken rio. It's chicken and pasta in a white sauce. Only the chicken is blobby and the white sauce isn't really sauce. More like straight heavy cream they poured on the plate. It seriously has no taste, just a fatty consistency. My original review stands: I could make better Italian food at home. Or purchase it at Fresh & Easy and heat it up. And it would be 10 times better. I honestly think they paid Rick Moonen to write that review. Or maybe he got some special food? Insult to injury: this meal cost me over $30!
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