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| - I have dined at II Fornaio at least 3 times in the last 5 years. I've been here for breakfast and dinner. You'll find the typical items on their breakfast menu like coffee, pastries, eggs, pancakes, and fruit. Breakfast at II Fornaio is just okay and the portions are on the smaller side. I recently dined here with my girlfriend and her cousins. Even though we had reservations, we still had to wait about 15 minutes for a table. It was a Friday night and that kind of stuff happens. Once seated, we looked through our menus. I was actually surprised that II Fornaio had a lot more than just Italian food for dinner. Il Fornaio offers a pre fixe meal for about $30, which includes salad or soup, main entrée, and dessert. This is not a bad deal at all. I wasn't craving Italian, steaks, or anything on their pre fixe menu. So, I ended up with their mixed seafood dish, the Grigliata di Pesce Misto for $30.95. This meal includes salmon, seabass, calamari, scallops, prawns, potatoes, and broccolini. This is one of those dishes that sounded good on paper and the portions were really small. The bigger issue was that half of my dish was okay, while the other half wasn't prepared correctly. The salmon and the seabass wasn't fully cooked. Both were grilled on the outside and still raw on the inside. I was starving and figured that it's no different than sushi. So, I ate it and didn't even mention it. The good news...the rest of the dish was cooked.
Overall, II Fornaio is just okay. II Fornaio is not one of those places on the strip that I can't wait to come back to. But I'll sure that I will be back because there will always be someone I know that wants to dine here.
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