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| - Extremely disappointed in this experience. This is my 2nd experience at this location, first time was last year at my cousin's graduation - food tasted fresh, hot and the service was impeccable. This trip?? Horrible. Our cousins were visiting from New York and a few of us from San Diego drove over to meet them; there was a total of 14 in our party. The waiter (Kevin I think) seemed friendly when a few of us first arrived but then quickly got overwhelmed.
We ordered the di Beppo salad, Cesar salad, green beans, baked ziti, eggplant parmesan, veal marsala, chicken marsala and calamari. The salads were great, good flavor, cold and crisp. Calamari was excellent, comes in a huge martini glass (tentacles and everything)!! The breading is light, not greasy and you can actually taste the calamari which is extremely tender. The baked ziti was extremely dry, very little sauce. Both marsala dishes came covered in a thick sauce which seemed more like a glaze rather than an actual marsala sauce; the meats were tender though. All of the food (minus the salads) came out luke warm.
The green beans were the biggest disappointment; one of my aunts is a vegetarian, and this is one of her favorites. We placed two orders to start, but both lacked flavor and seemed like the beans were previously frozen. She sent one of the plates back and was brought a "fresh, hot batch." However this one was worse than the first two - no flavor, chewy and tasted like they had been quickly defrosted.
This is usually such a fun restaurant to come too and have family style meals; I've been to multiple locations but this one is the worst one by far. I know restaurants have off nights but this was extremely disappointing.
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