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| - We went here for lunch during my wife lunch break last week. She had been before, but it was my first time. From the outside this place looks pretty small, but when you go in it extends fairly deeply and has mirrored walls, so it's actually quite roomy. There is a bar up front, and a fair amount of booths and regular tables. The place is clean, and everything from the decor down to most of the people eating there makes you feel as if you may actually be in NYC.
My wife ordered the spaghetti with meat sauce, and I tried the baked ziti since it was on the lunch special. They brought us out some breadsticks and marinara dipping sauce. The bread was hot out of the oven, fresh, and soft. The marinara was warmed as well. Very good.
The ziti is gargantuan. It comes out heaping on the plate, loaded with sauce, italian sausage, and mushrooms, and is topped with a layer of melted mozzarella cheese. I'm not generally a fan of mushrooms, but most of them were diced small enough not to matter, and the others were easy enough to pick out or around. The ziti noodles were prepared well and not hard like you sometimes get with baked pasta dishes. In all, one of the best ziti dishes I've had. I would definitely recommend it.
I also tried a bit of my wife's spaghetti and meat sauce. They use the larger traditional spaghetti rather than the spaghettini most places use. It was cooked well, and the meat sauce was flavorful. It was good, but not the best I've had.
Overall, it was a good experience and I'd like to go back and try more of their menu items.
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