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| - First off, I am usually not overly impressed by Italian restaurants unless they are really good and do everything right because I can whip up a pasta dish fairly easily at home. In the end, Paganelli's is okay.
The really good Italian restaurants I have experienced have plenty of fresh bread on the table, and they keep it coming. And they have really good olive oil for dipping. At Paganelli's we got one basket of bread, which I appreciated because I was starving, but the bread was a little salty, and there was nothing to dip it in, and it didn't keep coming either.
The other thing that didn't sit well with me was that they don't have beers on tap (which is probably why they don't advertise any on their website). Although I'm sure their wine selection is much better, and that does make sense for an Italian restaurant, but I'm a beer guy... Most of the beers are Italian, although they do have bottles of Keith's.
The third thing that I wasn't high on was that the food is a little on the salty side, like a lot of the other reviews mentioned. It has a bit of the salt = flavour thing going on for sure, which confuses me a bit because I thought Italian food was mostly about fresh ingredients and letting those sing.
The other thing that I find strange, but isn't a big deal is that you have to cut your own pizza which scissors... which I think would be a fun activity for kids to do, and would keep them busy. But why? Give me a pizza cutter and I'll cut my own pizza thanks.
I really wanted to like this place. I didn't mind the decor, the service, the variety of food... They just miss on a lot of little things that could really elevate the experience.
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