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| - I am so sad to say anything bad about this place. This is the kind of place I usually love to find. You know they are not going to be cutting edge, but they usually know well how to keep a customer happy.
We visited on Valentines day, having decided to dine out at the last minute, we decided to try to find a good local place. My wife and I had been to Tillies years ago and decided to see if a table might be available without much of a wait. We arrived at 8:00 and were seated immediately. I really didn't think much of it, but perhaps I should have.
Our server was great. Very friendly, helpful, and efficient. We all ordered the homemade spaghetti because the menu seemed to feature it. My wife had the marinara with a meatball, my son, the aglio olio, and I had ordered the meat sauce, which had a very enticing description. I forget what it said, but it reminded me of Mom. We also ordered soup, salad, and wine.
The waitress brought some bread that, I must admit was very good and very fresh. Things started to turn with the wine, or should I say that the wine started to turn? I could not decide for sure what was wrong with it. It tasted a bit like some very poorly made homemade wine I had, but finally decided that it was just on it's way to becoming vinegar from a really cheap bottle of wine. One sip was all we drank.
The salads were OK, the soup was good.
We got our pasta, and we're all disappointed. Mine came with the wrong sauce (marinara with a meatball) and I immediately sent it back. Yeah, I know that is not too much different, but it was a far cry from what was written on the menu. My son said his tasted funny, and this quickly growing boy who is eating us out of house and home ate about 1/3 of his.
My wife had the marinara, and it tasted burnt.
The waitress returned with my dish REALLY fast. No I am know culinary expert, but I am smart enough to see that she came back with the same plate with the meatball cut in about four pieces, then covered with another ladle of the marinara. One half inch of bad sauce is not enough to make me forget that I still did not get what I ordered.
In any case, I tasted the pasta, and dug around looking for signs of this heavenly meat sauce, but had now more than two bites. After waiting for quite a while, I started to wonder if this waitress was as well trained as I thought. When she finally came back, she said nothing as she took away our full glasses and my full plate. I then realized that she probably was well trained to ignore potential problem customers. I know I should have said something but who wants to sound miserable when taking their family out for Valentines Day?
As I was leaving, I wondered how this place stayed in business for fifty years. It occurred to me later that this may exactly be how they stayed in business. Sell cheap stuff to regular customers and don't try to please everyone. Even if they don't come back, they are still dumb enough to pay the bill. I regret that I was.
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