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| - I was excited to review this place because of the polar opposite reviews I had read and how old and famous the place is! I went with a big group, so I had the chance to see many menu items plated and try more than one dish.
Ambience: Very kitschy and dark, lots of old photos and vintage cans, signs & baskets. Equal parts fun and tacky.
Drinks: Free bottomless house wine. Not a drinker, but apparently its passable but no memorable.
Service: not friendly, just efficient. Not super helpful either.
Salad: (included with the meal) 2 stars, boring, lightly vinaigretted greens with a chunk of cheese and a slice of pastrami.
Garlic Bread: (included) Superb, 4 stars. Warm, fresh, crispy and soft.
Chicken Alfredo (entree): 3 stars. The sauce was fine, the grilled chicken was good.
Filet Mignon: (entree) 1 star. I eat steak all the time, this was awful: tasteless, under cooked, & dry. It's hard to mess up a piece of meat but Battistas has done it. Almost identical to the memorable time I ordered steak at an Applebee's in 2006. That bad.
Manicotti: (entree) 2 stars, the cheese was fine, but not much taste, and the sauce was pretty boring, kinda sweet. Just bland overall.
Cappuccino: (included) was really just hot chocolate with whipped cream. Good, but not what you expect.
Spumoni Dessert: 3 stars, it was tasty layered ice cream. Can't mess it up, delicious and recommended.
Tiramisu: overstrong flavor, but it looks pretty. I can't rate it with justice because I don't like tiramisu. Most at the table did not eat much of it.
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