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| - Angela decided to head to Alice Fazooli's for a little bday get together for dinner. The Alice Fazooli's located on Adelaide is a pretty big one and is nicely decorated. We headed there on a friday and it had all the typical young professionals there unwinding down and enjoying their TGIF drinking traditional.
We made reservations ahead of time and they were pretty accommodating and seated us even tho we only had about a third of the people there. With this being a larger restaurant, you're in luck if you're dropping in on a whim. At around 8ish the restaurant probably filled to just about two thirds capacity. We had some great waitresses that were attentive friendly and got hit on by our group there. And even with our friends hitting on them, service never dropped a beat.
I ended up ordering this special fixe prix dinner menu that was targeted for a valentine's romantic dinner promo. The dinner came with complimentary sparkling wine, a small calamari appetizer, a choice of soup or salad (went with the casear, average I would have to say) and a nice entree which was steak and some butterfly shrimp with mixed greens on the side. For dessert I went Italian inspired cannoli. Now the sparkling wine was alright, nothing special. The small calamari dish was a bit of a letdown. It was small and looked frozen. Didn't taste fresh nor was it even deep fried well. The main entree of steak was better. I felt the seasoning wasn't there but it was grilled well. It wasn't a small piece so you don't have to worry about finding a post dinner option. Each butterfly shrimp was rather small so tho taste was okay, it was a enough work for each one to be bring the dish value down. Call me lazy, but it was enough work for me to dock them a point especially with the size of shrimp that was used. Now the dessert options weren't great with the fixe prix menu, so I was hoping the cannoli would have panned out. I wasn't thrilled with it and ended up leaving it unfinished. Angela wasn't thrilled about it either and if your dessert expert stops eating, you follow their lead. The dessert felt premade and was simply waiting to be taken from the kitchen.
Overall, I'm mixed on Alice Fazooli's. The food isn't horrible but for the price you pay I just kinda expected more. The food just wasn't on par with many downtown options. But service, mannn was it good. Attentive, friendly and fun (I'm sure this might be an exception to the norm). Even with our friends hitting on the waitresses (yes multiple), they rolled with the punches and mann did they fire some back at them. This was not only entertaining but helped to pull everyone out of their shell. It was a new group so this helped to break the ice. I just wished Alice Fazooli's had better food to compliment their service cause boy did their service stand out.
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