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| - I am offended as both an Italian (from New York!) and as a customer that this restaurant exists.
I should have seen the red flags fly when the restaurant had only one table and the football game on the TV on a Saturday night. Foolish me.
It started out decent enough, although for an empty restaurant the service was painfully slow. Should it really take 10 minutes to bring 2 glasses of wine? The bread and red pepper dipping sauce was fine enough, not amazing but it was tasty. We lorded the eggplant rollatini for an appetizer. They should really note how excessively large their portions are. Our appetizer could have easily been dinner for two, and no, that is not a selling point. It was lukewarm, but again, tasty enough. The marinara was basically crushed tomatoes saturated in garlic salt with some basil thrown in. My grandmother is rolling in her grave as I write this, I'm sure.
Then came the worst part - the entrees. Two heaping bowls of sauce came out. Somewhere in there was my chicken and shrimp carbonara and my boyfriend's lobster ravioli. There had to have been at least 4 cups of store-bought sauce in each bowl. Within a few bites, the sauce had already started separating - how appetizing! The chicken in my carbonara was clearly frozen grilled chicken strips (perhaps Tyson?) that had an unpleasant after taste. The shrimp was slightly undercooked and still had their tails on. Normally, this would be fine, but when there is so much sauce to navigate through, grabbing onto a tail is not ideal. The peas were extremely over cooked and mushy. Somewhere was my bacon but that was too coated in sauce to find. My boyfriend's lobster ravioli was also overwhelmed with sauce. The dish also came with shrimp and scallops but again, the over abundance of sauce made differentiating between the two impossible.
To make the scene all the more sad, there was a man playing piano who for some reason decided to use the microphone to say he was going on a break. That would have been fine, however we were the only customers in the room at that point and only made the situation awkward.
I'm convinced the only reason their portions are so large is so they can charge $12+ for an entree without feeling guilty. $50 down the drain - I couldn't even stand the smell of the leftovers and promptly threw them away upon returning home.
To salvage what was left of our evening, we were forced to go to the grocery store and buy some Ben & Jerry's and beer - Two things we know we're getting our money's worth for.
Word to the wise, stay away!
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