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| - Went here twice for a small birthday celebration--the first time and the last time. I was INCREDIBLY disappointed with the food and can confidently say that the Olive Garden is more authentic (and cleaner, more reasonably priced, tastier, etc). My friend ordered spaghetti with mushrooms--it was an entire CAN of mushrooms dropped on top of the pasta. Not even cooked!!! Disgusting. The sauce had a metallic taste, so that almost certainly came from a can, and the noodles were mush. How can you offer "traditional Italian fare" and not cook a noodle correctly?
I got a "small antipasto platter" described as "traditional greek salad, olives, tomatoes, salami, and cheese." It came out as a bed of lettuce with two green olives, hard unripened tomato wedges, BEETS (wtf? not in the description and not something you surprise folks with) and little triangles of generic meat and cheese arranged in a geometric pattern on top. $7.95 or so for $1.00 worth of Walmart ingredients. Does this place think it's funny to overcharge people for store-bought, prepackaged food? I didn't get the joke, and I don't understand how can this place can possibly take itself seriously.
If you look closely at the reviews, you can read right through the thinly-veiled attempts to say something positive about this "historical venue" to the nasty reality. "Almost half of the lasagna was cheese"--yeah, they're hiding boxed noodles and sub-par sauce under there for $14. "Crab meat" and "veal"--yeah right. No way you're actually getting either of those meats in the dishes.
The only thing this place has going is its kitsch, and even then--it's dirty, dusty, and disgusting. We sat at a table with a creepy toy clown on a bicycle that kept zipping back and forth overhead, and you could see the dust on it. Over our food and drinks! I was appalled. If you have ever had an authentic or homemade Greek or Italian dish in your life, you will kick yourself for paying to eat anything at this restaurant. The owners should be ashamed.
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