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| - 3.5 stars. This is my 3rd Zack Bruell's restaurant (After table 45 and parallax) and I think food wise, this is my least favorite. Nonetheless, Been to Chinato twice now. To read what I think about it the first time, read Matt C,'s review since we went together with his parents.
However, I went again today and WHOA totally different!! One, I was not stuck in the basement where the echos sucked and the noise volume was intense. I actually got to sit in a booth with great service (to be fair, there wasn't a lot of people at the time).
Linguine with baby clams, calamari and scallions (3.5)-- I gotta rave about the calamari on this dish. Read my review on Table 45 to learn what a big seafood fan I am. Most restaurants you go to make a great seafood pasta but when it comes to the actual seafood, a lot of restaurants don't have really fresh tasting seafood. Chinato's calamari was very fresh tasting and I loved it that way. The pasta sauce was delicious too. However, I gotta complain a bit about the linguine and the clams. One, the clams was not fresh and I didn't taste the true flavors of clams. Second, the linguine wasn't a normal linguine... I don't even know how to explain what kind of pasta it was.. it was just different. ANd there was not a good portion of it at all.
Almond Panna Cotta (3.5)-- the texture of the panna cotta was JUST amazing. I loved the texture but i didn't really taste that much almond flavor. If the dessert menu didn't tell me it was almond, I would've guessed it was jsut vanilla panna cotta.
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