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| - I wish I had the option to rate the food and the service separately. Yelp - you should implement this.
I'll start with the good. I know owners and employees read these reviews, so note to you: stop reading when I say "And now for the bad...".
I'm a member of Capital Fitness, and walk past this place all the time. I always think to myself "man, that place smells like it has some good food". I was right about that. The food was incredible. INCREDIBLE. I told my manfriend that it was probably the most delicious pasta I've ever had. I ordered the lobster ravioli: it had a nice balance and wasn't too seafoody, which some seafood pasta tends to be. The sauce was a cream sauce and wasn't overpowering, and it had a nice little kick. My friend had the cheese tortellini, and it was very good as well.
And now for the bad...
We dined here tonight (yes, tonight. I'm so angry that this couldn't wait until the next day on Valentine's Day). The only reason we picked this place was because we're both not huge Valentine's Day fanatics, and I had just finished a yoga class and saw that they weren't that busy... can't imagine why *sarcasm*. I am legitimately speechless about the experience outside of the food. They had a set menu for all the lovers out there, which consisted of an over the top seven course meal. The waiter agreed with us that it was entirely too much food, and it was $70 per person. I had no intention of spending $140 dollars on Valentine's Day dinner. So we opted for two of the five pasta options they were offering that night (not on a menu, and the waiter didn't say prices.. I'll get to that later) and two cheaper glasses of wine ($8 a pop). As we waited for our wine and food, the waiter brought out "a few pieces of bread", which were two, three inch triangles of what I'm assuming was their pizza crust. "OK, maybe they're just trying to give their customers a taste of authentic Italian simplicity", I thought. There was no side salad. "OK, so the pasta dishes must be a pretty good size", I thought. We get our entrees, and if you've read my paragraph on the food, you'll know it was delicious. I got five raviolis and felt good afterwards, and my friend was "comfortable" after eating all of his. I figured, why not get some desserts for this kind of but not really special occasion. I had heard a different waiter telling the table behind us that they had red velvet cake or angel food cake soaked in a creamy liquor. YUP, doin' that. Well, when I asked our waiter about dessert, he said "well, I can't really offer you anything, but we do have red velvet cupcakes"... Can't offer me anything? Ok, snootypants, I'll go get desserts for us from Monty's Blue Plate (we did).
During this whole hour long experience, the man who I'm assuming was the chef, was absolutely doting on a table of two people he must have been acquainted with. He brought out their wine, their salad, etc. etc. He walked past us a few times and said hello to the table behind us and "how is everything tasting?" to the table next to us... didn't even look our way. "OK, maybe he sees that we didn't spend the $70 per person on his specialty menu and hates us", I thought. I chalked it up to him being busy with his "regulars" (although, one way to make new regulars is to BE NICE to new customers).
The waiter then brings the bill out. To my shock, it was $84.00. EIGHTY FOUR DOLLARS AND YOU CAN'T "OFFER ME" ANY DESSERT OR STOP AT MY TABLE TO SAY "BOO"? uuuuh, no. Containing my anger was no easy feat, and the second we got outside I was yelling.
The only reason this review is two stars and not one, is because the little food we got for $84 was delicious, and I was a big enough idiot to not look at your menu prices online before we came here. Needless to say, I won't have to worry about that, again.
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